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Naica Crystal Cave - Mexico
A team of international scientists explore a Mexican cave filled with giant crystals. With temperatures near 120 degrees Fahrenheit (48.8 Celsius), and over 80 per cent humidity, the cave is one of the deadliest environments on earth. Without specialized suits and equipment, the scientists would die in minutes. Their mission: to unlock the secrets of the mysterious ancient crystals, some of the largest ever discovered.
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Montezuma
Dan Snow travels to Mexico to investigate the history, character and legacy of Montezuma, the last great ruler of the Aztecs of central America.
He uncovers the extraordinary story of the Aztecs themselves, a cultured and civilised people whose lives were governed by eleborate ceremony and blood-curdling ritual.
Dan Snow also discovers how, in a titanic clash of cultures, their leader Montezuma faced up to a mortal threat from another world - the weaponry, gold-lust and greed of 16th-century Spanish conquistadors.
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The Olmec of Lowland
Evidence of social hierarchy and cultural elaboration occurs in different parts of Mesoamerica by the late 2nd millennium BCE.
The most spectacular manifestation of these processes is what's known as the Olmec culture, or Olmec horizon, particularly as found in the tropical forests along the Gulf of Mexico between about 1300 BCE and 300 BCE.
The uncertainty in designation, whether we call this the Olmec culture, which implies an integrated social, political, and cultural system, or whether we call it a horizon, which for archaeologists only implies similar artifacts appearing over a region at about the same time, that uncertainty mirrors the various kinds of debates that have attended Olmec archaeology since Olmec artifacts were first recognized as belonging to a very early Mesoamerican cultural tradition in the 1920s. Much of this controversy, many of these debates, originated in the contexts in which Olmec and related artifacts were discovered on Mesoamerican archaeological sites; the circumstances in which they were uncovered.
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