Dr. Bowles is a Professor of History at the American Public University. 

He holds four university degrees: a Ph.D. in History from Case Western Reserve University, an MBA in Technology Management, a Master's in History, and a Bachelor's in Psychology from the University of Akron. ​He has written over 20 books, including three college-level textbooks (Digital Literacy, U.S. History since 1865, and A Global History of Science). 

Dr. Bowles was a 10-year NASA Historian. The American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA) awarded him its prize for the best historical book in 2004, 2005, & 2010. 

​​His current project involves collaborating with Dr. Jeannette Potts to publish her book,

Lying in a Tomb: The Mummies of Guanajuato, Mexico—a Memoir. 

See Dr. Potts with one of the mummies in the image below.
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The video is of Dr. Bowles climbing the Chichén Itzá pyramid, also known as El Castillo or the Temple of Kukulcán—

in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico