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The Monument to the Discoveries represented a romanticized idealization of the Portuguese exploration that was typical of the Estado Novo regime of António de Oliveira Salazar. It was originally constructed as a temporary construction, located in the Praça do Império as part of an urban renewal project favoured by minister Duarte Pacheco ...
Don Wildman is a podcast and documentary host.He is the current host of the American History Hit podcast as well as the host and narrator of Mysteries at the Museum, Beyond the Unknown, [2] Dark Tales with Don Wildman, and Buried Worlds with Don Wildman [3] on the Travel Channel.
A documentary filmed in 1998 for Channel 4 and the Discovery Channel detailed his hieros gamos concept. [3] At Stonehenge on midsummer morning, a phallic shadow is cast from the "Heel" stone; this penetrates to the centre of the monument where its tip touches the "Goddess" stone. [4]
Mysteries at the Monument Mysteries at the Hotel Mysteries at the Museum is an hour-long television program on the Travel Channel which features museum artifacts of unusual or mysterious origins.
The discovery of the ancient Statue of Antinous found in Delphi, Greece during an excavation in 1894 (colorized). Antinous was the Greek male lover of Hadrian, a Roman Emperor in the 2nd century.
Ancient Discoveries is a television series that premiered on December 21, 2003, on the History Channel. The program focused on ancient technologies. The program focused on ancient technologies. The show's theme was that many inventions which are thought to be modern have ancient roots or in some cases may have been lost and then reinvented.
By the turn of the 21st century, the monument was in a dire state of conservation. [5] It was declared bien de interés cultural in 2008. [5] A new restoration, intending to consolidate the monument by installing a core of reinforced concrete, also recovering elements of the original work, such as an Earth orb or a crown, took place in the ...
Lost Worlds is a documentary television series by the History Channel that explores a variety of "lost" locations from ancient to modern times. These "great feats of engineering, technology, and culture" [1] are revealed through the use of archaeological evidence, interviews with relevant experts while examining the sites, and CGI reproductions. [2]