the tallest mounds outside of the acropolis surround a central courtyard. the largest mounds date to the time following the death of 18 rabbit. surrounding the large mounds are smaller ones. they are almost unnoticeable. digging into the small mounds, the team discovers low stone foundations once covered with pole and thatched houses. david webster. webster: there's a lot of this cobbled masonry with stuff taken right out of the river. the rooms are small. there's a whole string of these that go around the entire group here. apparently there was a concentric circle of them around the entire elite compound. these things have sleeping benches just like domestic residences usually do at copan. they have plenty of occupational debris, all sorts of trash -- broken pots, obsidian, grinding stones. there are burials associated with these buildings. in other words, these look just like domestic habitations. keach: they were houses, and if copan were still a chiefdom, no one could have lived in houses much bigger than these, not even the chiefs. there would have bee

the acropolis, but it's great bleachers. this is like a greek amphitheater or like the houston astrodome. and if you can think of them not as it is now with grass and trees but with plaster all over the stairs, painted red and full of people, the sounds of musicians and the sounds of crowds and roars the play goes back and forth across the field -- sometimes the king participating as a player, if he was particularly young and nimble, and sometimes observing from afar as his team and opponents played out the game. keach: for the ancient maya, the ball court was not just a place to spend a pleasant afternoon. it was also an arena for a deadly form of theater. captives from neighboring cities were sometimes forced to play. they of course were pre-ordained to lose and were then killed in a sacrificial ceremony. the ancient maya viewed the ball game as a metaphor for the struggle of good against evil, in which the king is hero. it was the king who personally captured the victim-players. so the ball court provided another opportun

a year later, the peloponnesian war broke out, halting the acropolis building program. grk foht gre as henswas pitteda r almo 30 ars. sculptors who had worked on e parthenon now carved gravestones to be set up in the athenian cemetery. d for viims ofgueth flashed ths 430. thadre th the living: husbands and wives, fathers and sons, children with their pets, suggesting bonds of love that outlasted death. ( woman singing ) about 420 b.c., during an interlude in the war, woumed othacroli the temple of athena ne se on a prips bastion, aceful and jewelike. along s papet were wing femalfigures, coratity thee of clinging draperies and sweeping cves ignored harsh wartime realities to celrate instead the fleeting moment. thmagnt viory us to eranl. the balance she maintains is elegant but precarious. in 404 b.c., the peloponnesian war ended. athens was defeated. yet in the next century, the city would again take the lead woule t andthgh t prent even from the few fragmentary yet precious works that remain for us, the astonishing originality, of that shining civilization. ( music )

planned a new west entrance in the form of a greek portico based on the entrance to the athenian acropolis but altered its intercolumn nation and added features from other athenian buildings. the main purpose was to provide housing for the door keepers of the senate and the house while freeing up space for the committee rooms but also to improve the pedestrian approach to the capitol from the mall. the massiveness of his six greek doric columns 32 feet high vibed with a slightly taller corinthian capped columns in the loggia dictated by thornton's original choice. the sandstone walls of the capit capitol's wings were already painted white but latrobe's watercolor depicted his in the stone's natural light brown color. he may have intended it to remain unpainted in order to visually separate the capitol's two distinctly different historical sources, roman and greek. instead of the open bal strayeds atop the house and senate wings, latrobe planned solid ones for his center building. he designed a monumental statue of athena as american liberty for its central stepped podium, a reference to th

over the years, the grand temples and palaces of the acropolis have been reconstructed.but for all this impressive research, one essential question long remained unanswered. who were the common men and women who lived here ? when and how did they disappear ? this looks great. now, this area is so intensively used... to find out, bill sanders and dave webster, archaeologists from penn state university, began a project in 1980 that would span a decade of work. sanders: before we srted the copan project, we knew a great deal about copan. and its history was very similar to that of many classic maya sites. there was a long period of population growth, of political evolution, peaking around 800 a.d., and then the dynastic sequence ends shortly afterwards. and within a short period, the valley seems to have been abandoned. what we didn't know was anything about the factors and the mechanisms and the processes that produced this peculiar population history. and what we decided to do was a series of excavations and surveys which would allow us to find out how big the population

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