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For the past 4,000 years, a certain wild and desolate section of Arabian desert has been known as Mount Seir.

But its capital city, Petra, had dropped from the memory of mankind, its name even forgotten for the past thousand years. …the city the world forgot!

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The Seventh Wonder Of The World

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Along with Egypt’s Giza Pyramids, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon (today’s Iraq), the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Colossus of Rhodes in Greece, the Pharos Lighthouse of Alexandria (Egypt) and the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus was one of the “Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.”

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Evidence Of An Advanced Civilization During The Ice Age

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A look at the book:  Maps Of The Ancient Sea Kings
by Dr. Charles Hapgood
This book gives compelling evidence that there existed advanced civilizations prior to any that we are now aware of. Scholars have long dismissed legends and myths of such civilizations as mere story-telling and embellishment by our ancestors.
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The Search For The Lost Ship Endurance

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David Mearns calls it the shipwreck hunter’s ”ultimate challenge”: finding the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton’s vessel the Endurance.
Fresh from discovering the wreck of the torpedoed Australian hospital ship the Centaur, off the coast of Queensland, Mearns wants to voyage to the South Pole to find Shackleton’s vessel, which was lost in 1915.

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7 Women Reach South Pole After 562-Mile Ski Trek

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Seven women on a 562-mile Antarctic ski trek reached the South Pole Thursday, 38 days after they began their adventure to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Commonwealth.

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Alby Mangels – Traveler, Adventurer, Explorer

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Without exaggeration, Adventure Bound is one of best travel documentary series ever made, and I must admit that while surfing channels, I’m glued to my TV every time I stumble upon Alby Mangels’ adventures.
And if you have not yet discovered this extremely interesting and educational series, I will do my best to make you [...]

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The Search For El Dorado

El Dorado (Spanish for “the golden one”) is a legend that began with the story of a South American tribal chief who covered himself with gold dust and would dive into a lake of pure mountain water.
Imagined as a place, El Dorado became a kingdom, an empire, the city of this legendary golden king.

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The Great Shiprock NM Treasure Hunt

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Join as we search for the airstrip where the 17 tons of gold was unloaded. Help us explore one of the possible caves where the gold may be hidden. Watch some dowsing demonstrations and help us try out some deep-search metal detectors at an old homestead.
A group camping trip where we will search for 17 [...]

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