Friends and colleagues: In the most recent installment of the Video News  
from TAC, you’ll see battlefield archaeology in Belgium, hear about a  
rediscovered language in Peru, and observe how Maya hieroglyphs are  written.  See 
these stories in the November 2011 edition of this monthly  half-hour show, 
available now on our nonprofit streaming-media Web site,  The Archaeology 
Channel (_http://www.archaeologychannel.org_ 
(http://www.archaeologychannel.org) )  as well as on cable TV in cities across the US.
 
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; and the 
crafting of casts for human fossils.  Video News  program details can be 
found at _http://www.archaeologychannel.org/VideoNews.html_ 
(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_ (http://www.archaeologychannel.org/VideoNewscabletv.htm) .
 
This and other programs are available on TAC for your use and  enjoyment.  
We urge you to support this public service by participating in  our 
Membership (_http://www.archaeologychannel.org/member.html_ 
(http://www.archaeologychannel.org/member.html) )  and Underwriting 
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programs.  Only with your help can we continue and enhance our nonprofit  
public-education and visitor-supported programming.  We also welcome new  content 
partners as we reach out to the world community.
 
Please forward this message to others who may be interested.
Richard M. Pettigrew, Ph.D., RPA
President and Executive  Director
Archaeological Legacy Institute
_http://www.archaeologychannel.org_ (http://www.archaeologychannel.org)