Launched in October 2010, the Video News from TAC is designed for both online streaming and cable TV distribution. Other subjects covered so far in the series include a tour of Thailand’s cultural heritage; an interview with Dr. Tom King; preserving the first Moon base; the indigenous people of Taiwan; a joint Hopi Tribe-USDA Forest Service effort to save ancient rock art panels; archaeologists and natives learning from each other on a Polynesian island; recording cultural heritage on the Thames River in London; ongoing excavations at a long-inhabited site in Jordan; a tour of Classical sites in Italy; a video tribute to Dr. Donny George; the Terracotta Army exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; the disappearing hutong neighborhoods of Beijing; a Native American man rediscovering an ancient craft; the changing waterscape of the London Olympics; vandalism on the walls of an Oregon forest cave; the competitive results of TAC Festival 2011; the recovery of a prehistoric dugout canoe in Florida; a discourse on the Mexican Day of the Dead; Florida’s historic Fort Gadsden; the ongoing and instructive decay of an abandoned Greek village; excavations in the Grand Canyon, on the Polynesian island of Tubuai, and in the Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain; the extensive underground world of Alexandria, Egypt; the crafting of casts for human fossils; a 300-year-old European battlefield; a lost language in Peru; and how to write Mayan hieroglyphs. Video News program details can be found at
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/VideoNews.html. The growing list of cable TV stations carrying the show is posted at
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/VideoNewscabletv.htm.
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