Actor Richard Kiley narrates this investigation into both new and well-known clues to the origins of the human race. Razor -sharp tools of our ancestors are examined and discussed by historians and experts. A number of fossilized skeletons that are more than a million years old are examined by scientists. Ash-entombed footprints provide a trail into centuries that ended long ago. Viewers will see many artifacts that all relate to what is often referred to as one of the "greatest mysteries of all time.

This video asks the question, "Who are we and where did we come from?" Through eyewitness journalism, award-winning photography, and scientific research from around the world, it explores a trail of ash-entombed footprints, razor-sharp stone tools of ancient ancestors, and fossilized skeletons that date a million years or more to reveal new facts about man's origin.

The earth does not easily yield its secrets. Yet around the world, scientists are unraveling the compelling story of human evolution. It is a saga that blends the rigors of science with the romance of a detective story. We have only traces that hint at who our ancestors were and how they may have lived. It is like a gigantic puzzle with most of the pieces forever missing. Today, biological scientists may quibble over the details of evolution, but they all agree that evolution is a fact. Animal studies now shed light on why some distant ape like creature became an upright walker and how it may have confronted the perils of life on open ground. Once barely noticeable on the landscape, humans would come to dominate the earth. A tool, mother of all inventions, was the key to our success. Tools chipped from stone and tools fashioned from limbs helped bring us to where we are today. Now, new tools help us better understand what paths we may have traveled along the way, and much of our current knowledge and understanding of who we are, where we came from, has come about only in the last 30 years. Can we reconstruct the past? Can long silent voices be summoned across the vast reaches of time? Join us as we probe the MYSTERIES OF MANKIND.

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