Friends and colleagues: The latest installment of the Video News from TAC features the following stories:


 
* A Maya pyramid at El Zotz, Guatemala, with images done in dramatic painted stucco and a royal tomb full of artifacts and human remains, may have linked the deceased lord to the eternal sun.
 
* Technicians using ancient building techniques work to save crumbling walls at  “The Mithraeum of the Painted Walls” in Ostia Antica, the harbor of classical Rome.
 
* Workers restore Paschoal Hall, the central structure of Kalaupapa on Molokai Island, Hawaii, where lepers have sought refuge and treatment since the 1860s.
 
See these stories in theSeptember 2012 edition of this monthly half-hour show, available now on our nonprofit streaming-media Web site, The Archaeology Channel (http://www.archaeologychannel.org) as well as on cable TV in cities across the US.
 
Launched in October 2010, the Video News from TAC has presented 53 stories on highly varied topics in nine US states, 20 other countries, and two heavenly bodies (the Earth and the Moon).  Video News program details can be found at 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.
 
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) and Underwriting (http://www.archaeologychannel.org/sponsor.shtml) 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.
 
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Richard M. Pettigrew, Ph.D., RPA
President and Executive Director
Archaeological Legacy Institute
http://www.archaeologychannel.org