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Professor Darius Arya explores the hidden secrets of three of the most fascinating cities of the ancient world: Athens, Cairo and Istanbul. 3D scans allow us to view the architectural jewels of these cities as they’ve never been seen before.
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Invisible cities box set Designer Traci Larson has created a stunning limited edition CD package for The Industry Records' first release. A custom-made wooden box contains a collection of evocative postcards, with images and texts as relics of Calvino's mysterious cities.
Episode 1: Athens | Professor Darius Arya uses scanning technology to reveal the hidden secrets of ancient Athens. From the buildings on the Acropolis to the silver mines and quarries beyond the city, he investigates the story of the city that gave the world democracy.
Episode 2: Cairo | Darius Arya uses the latest scanning technology to reveal the historical secrets of Cairo and Ancient Egypt. He explores the Great Pyramid of Giza and the first pyramid ever built. He also explores a hidden Roman fortress and discovers a well deep in the rock below the Arabic citadel of Saladin.
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Episode 3: Istanbul | Historian Darius Arya takes us on an extraordinary journey through the treasures of Istanbul, Turkey. But with many of its secrets concealed or underground, he turns to the latest 3D imaging technology to see the city as no human eye ever could.
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- Marco is able to identify cities on the map and plot routes to some, and he can see that in the future, San Francisco will be part of an empire bigger than Kublai’s. Marco describes Laudomia, which includes a city for the living, one for the dead, and one for the unborn.
- In his dreams, transparent cities appear. Kublai tells Marco Polo that last night, he dreamed of a city with spires built so that the moon can rest on them as it crosses the sky. Marco answers that the city is called Lalage and that its inhabitants built it that way so that the moon would grant the city.