
When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed ...

What killed King Tutankhamun? Ever since his spectacular tomb was discovered, the boy king has been ...

Documentary film making at its best as it narrates very exotic and esoteric rituals of the primitive...
1960s Egyptian documentary showing scenes of local life along the banks of the River Nile, with narr...

Filmed in May 1971 in Niger, this short documentary records a possession ritual performed by the Sim...

Examines the history of the African kings from Kush who conquered Egypt and ruled over it for 1500 y...

In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his frien...

By drawing a parallel between the Indian Durga Puja festival and other forms of celebrating the divi...

Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Pyramid is the only one to survive. Many believe that...

Looking for a forgotten city: off the coast of Egypt, just a few metres under the surface, but blank...

January 2011: a team from the University of Basel makes two spectacular discoveries. The first was a...

The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra.

This special takes a 21st century approach to ancient history, bringing together the latest scientif...

As part of a high-tech forensic probe into the demise of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, scientists us...

Salvia Divinorum is an often misunderstood and powerful psychedelic plant used by the Mazatec shaman...

A documentary on the surviving syncretic pagan midwinter customs of the British Isles, focusing on n...

A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-ab...