Friends and colleagues: You can see two fascinating features in the February 2015 edition of Strata: Portraits of Humanity, available online and on TV:

 
* Christian Ris explains the story of archaeology, its challenges and major advances in a narrative style with numerous archived images.  People always have been interested in our past, but only since the Nineteenth Century has archaeology become a recognized science.
 
* Using black light and intricate exploitation of digital photography, the walls of the catacombs of Kom el-Shougafa in Alexandria, the mummies of the Taklamakan Desert in China and an Etruscan sarcophagus all reveal pictorial complexity that is barely perceptible to the naked eye.
 
Unlike any other show available anywhere, Strata is a fresh monthly showcase for unique, captivating and diverse stories about our cultural heritage from an archaeological perspective.  Check it out!
 
You can see this monthly half-hour show 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.  Strata program details can be found athttp://www.archaeologychannel.org/video-guide/strata-portraits-of-humanity.  The growing list of cable TV stations carrying the show is available athttp://www.archaeologychannel.org/video-guide/strata-portraits-of-humanity/184-additional-articles/1963-strata-portraits-of-humanity-on-cable-tv.  They include placement in the local on-demand menu of Comcast Cable in Oregon, Washington and now California.
 
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/support-guide/membership-program/become-a-member) and Underwriting (http://www.archaeologychannel.org/support-guide/underwriting-program) 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.
 
 
Richard M. Pettigrew, Ph.D., RPA
President and Executive Director
Archaeological Legacy Institute
http://www.archaeologychannel.org