New PBS TV show. Kind of a remake of the Kenneth Clark show of a similar name from back in the late 1960's. This one goes way further back in time, this first episode starts off with cave paintings. They showed some cave art that was new to me, and a lovely ivory figurine that I had never seen before. The voiceover commentary was less than satisfactory. They didn't show where these and other like works where from. They did opine about the age of the pieces, but did not mention the type of dating used, the uncertainty of the method, or recent revisions of carbon 14 datings of great age.
Then they went globe trotting, to some ancient recently discovered bronzes in China, to the Mayans, couple of other places.
Not as good as the original Kenneth Clark show, but watchable.
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The WashPo loved it. Ran a long glowing review. All the diversity made it a worthy TV series.
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