Documentary Description
Historian and writer Dan Cruickshank celebrates the creative force of
architecture as he explores the world's greatest cities, buildings and
monuments.
Dan travels the globe to explore how different cultures have created
architecture inspired by our mortality. In the Czech Republic, he
reveals the macabre tale of a chapel decorated with human bones. Even
more shocking is the Yaxha Mayan pyramids in Guatemala, sites of brutal
human sacrifice.
In Egypt, Dan explores how pharaohs ensured the passage of their
spirit to the afterworld through elaborate mortuary temples. He visits
Europe's greatest cemetery in Genoa, Staglieno, home to a spectacular
collection of beautiful and erotic memorial statues. And finally, Dan
comes face-to-face with death itself in Varanasi in India, a sacred
Hindu town where people come to die.
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