解读马雅宫殿中神秘的文字密码 人烟罕至的墨西哥丛林里，隐匿着庞大的马雅文明遗迹。金字塔的石造建筑雕刻着神秘的人像与精巧的文字，验证马雅王朝曾经辉煌的年代。两位伟大的考古学家在相隔一世纪之久的时间，前后深入探索这座失落的城市。经由他们解读马雅人所留下的建筑、碑文以及绘画艺术，串连起一页页古文明历史中失落的篇章，而以往世人认定马雅人精通天文历法以及爱好和平的天性，也将藉由他们的研究重新改写考古学历史。 They would tantalize explorers for hundreds of years. Great ruined cities lost in the jungles of Central America and Mexico. Who had built these great cities? It would take more than a century to unlock the secrets of the ancient Maya.

Early in the 19th century, the fog that long had shrouded Mesopotamia began to lift, in large part due to French-born Austen Henry Layard. Journeying to the upper Tigris valley, Layard gained the right to excavate along the banks of the river, and discovered the most fantastic artwork and architectural remains found anywhere outside of Egypt.

Homer's tale of the great walled city of Troy was, by the 19th century, thought of as fiction. But one man, a German industrialist, followed the clues in Homer's work and uncovered the ruins of Troy and Mycenae, complete wutg fabulous treasures. A generation later, an Englishman makes a spectacular discovery of the ancient palace of Knossos on the island of Crete.