Around the World in 80 Treasures

Dan Cruickshank goes in search of 80 treasures that define civilizations around the world.

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2005 HD 60min United Kingdom English Ended
Documentary

Credits:

Dan Cruickshank

Self - Presenter

S1E1 - Peru To Brazil 2005-02-21

In Peru Dan visits Machu Picchu, the last Inca capital after the Spanish Conquista (colonisation); the Inca salt pans; the Nazca Lines, traced by a mysterious civilization on a huge scale in the Andean desert; the Spider necklace of SipÃ¡n at Lamayeque and Chan Chan mud city at Trujilo. He travels via Chiles Easter Island (visiting the moai statues, last witnesses to a completely destroyed islander culture) to Brazil, where he visits the Umhara Indian headdress at CuiabÃ and the giant Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro.

S1E2 - Mexico To America 2005-02-28

In Mexico, Dan Cruickshank visits the Mayan city of Paleque, the Toltecs Giants of (Tollan) Tula and the painting Man, Controller of the Universe in Mexico city. Next Dan is in North America, in the USA, starting in the former Mexican part: a colt revolver is arguably his least artistic treasure, rather an artifact, at Cortez, then goes to Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, president Jeffersons Monticelo estate in Virginia and in New York both the Statue of Liberty (a French gift) and the modern Seagram Building.

S1E3 - Australia To Cambodia 2005-03-07

In Australia Dan visits St James Church in Sydney and aboriginal Kakadu rock art. He continues through Indonesia, visiting Spirit houses and tau-tau in Torajaland, on Sulawesi island, and Borobudur Stupa on Java to Thailand (for the Gold elephant at the ancient former capital Ayutthaya) and Cambodia, where he shows Angkor Wat at Siem Reap and Stone Faces of Bayon at Angkor Thom.

S1E4 - Japan To China 2005-03-14

In Japan Dan admires the Katana samurai sword in Tokyo, Himeji Castle and Ryan-ji Zen Buddhist Garden at Kyoto before traveling to China where he visits the Forbidden City and Summer palace park in Beijing, the Great Wall, the terracotta army in the imperial tomb at Xian and Ming Dynasty porcelain in Shanghai.

S1E5 - India To Sri Lanka 2005-03-21

First Dan Cruickshank visits India: durga at Kolkata, the traded spices of the port-city Cochin, the Meenakshi temple at Madurai, the Jantar Mantar astronomical observatory in Jaipur and the Taj Mahal mausoleum at Agra, a Mughal era capital. Then he crosses to the island of Sri Lanka (the former Ceylon) for visits to Sigiriya, the giant Buddha statue at Polonnaruwa and Buddhas Tooth reliquary in the old royal capital Kandy.

S1E6 - Uzbekistan To Syria 2005-03-28

In the Central-Asian (former Soviet) republic of Uzbekistan, Dan Cruickshank admires tiles of Samarkand and trading domes in Bukhara, then travels trough Azerbaijan, visiting the Fire Temple and Monastery at Surkhany, in Baku. In Iran (alias Persia), we marvel at the Imam mosque in Naghsh-i Jahan Square in Isfahan, a Persian rug in Shiraz, the Behistun Inscription in Kermanshah and the Ancient Achaemenid empires capital Persepolis. Finally to Syria, visiting the Al-Hamidiyah Souk in the capital Damascus.

S1E7 - Jordan To Ethiopia 2005-04-04

In Jordan, Dan visits the rock-carved Nabataean capital Petra and the Madaba Map, then travels via the Jerusalem Temple Mount to Ethiopia, to visit imperial Abessynias Coptic monuments: the Axum Stelae, The miracles of Mary manuscript kept in the church of Debre Damo and the Lalibela churches complex and - cross, which are carved out of massive rock.

S1E8 - Mali To Egypt 2005-04-11

In The West-African land-locked Sahel country Mali, Dan visits the Great Mosque of Djenna and at Sanga the Dogon tribes rock paintings and a ceremonial dance mask. The journey continues North trough desert-state Libya, visiting the Roman site of Leptis Magna at Tripolis and the Berber granary at Gasr Al-Hajj. Finally East to Egypt, gift of the Nile, where he admires the Great Pyramid of Giza, the burial mask of Pharaoh Tuthankamun in the Cairo museum, queen Nefertaris tomb in amazing Luxor and the Edfu temple of Horus.

S1E9 - Turkey To Germany 2005-04-15

In Turkey Dan visits the Derinkuyu underground city carved into the rocks in Cappadocia and the Hagia Sophia (former Byzantine monster cathedral, now a mosque) in Istanbul. In Russia the Moscow metro, Solovetsky Monastery at Solovki and Peter the Greats cabin at St. Petersburg star, in Poland salt mine carvings at Wieliczka, finally in Germany the Volkswagen Beatle in Berlin and the Brno Chair at the Bauhaus in Dessau.

S1E10 - Bosnia To France And Home 2005-04-25

In this final episode, Dan returns home via Bosnia, where he visit the Ottoman (Turkish empire days) Stari most- bridge in Mostar, then Greece -the Parthenon in Athens-, Italy where he admires the Pantheon in Rome, the Medici chapel in Firenze and the Gran Canale in Venice, followed by Spain -Picassos Guernica painting in Madrid and the Moorish Alhambra palace in Granada- and lastly France, making an ultimate stop in Chartres for the cathedral before crossing the English channel.