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S03E06: HUM213 Wk2 Water Under the Sand: Ancient Africa and the Ancient Americas
Episode Title: Water Under the Sand: Ancient Africa and the Ancient Americas
Description: A thousand miles of hand-dug tunnels beneath the Sahara. A pyramid in Peru built while Egypt was still raising its own. A city of two hundred thousand people whose builders left no name. We travel through ancient Africa and the pre-Columbian Americas, two worlds that never met, and ask the question running underneath both: what does the ground allow people to do, and what do people do anyway?
Along the way: the green Sahara and the Garamantes, the Queen of Sheba and Axum, Timbuktu and the griots of Mali…
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