In the Formative Period 4,000 years before the Incas and the arrival of the Conquistadors, Peru’s earliest civilizations - the Chavín, Caral, Ventarrón, Sechin, Cupisnique, and Cajamarca cultures - built centers of learning and technological achievements, including the largest work of hydrological engineering in the ancient Americas: the Cumbemayo canals.

Documentary following the 1955–1956 Norwegian Archaeological Expedition's investigations of Polynesi...

A modern team of explorers venture to the legendary "Lost World"- the remote jungle plateau of Rorai...

The third installment in Dan Přibáň's series of travel documentaries describes the author's journey ...

In 1872, in the cave of Cavillon in Monaco, archaeologist Émile Rivière (1835-1922) unearthed an app...

Move over, King Tut: There's a new pharaoh on the scene. A team of top archaeologists and forensics ...

This historical drama tells the story of Qin Shihuang, who unified China's vast territory and declar...

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

The Scythians, skilled horsemen and nomadic conquerors, built a feared empire in the vast Eurasian s...

Thousands of terracotta warriors guarded the first Chinese emperor's tomb. This is their story, told...

What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the R...

Forensic experts scan Pompeii’s victims to investigate why they didn’t escape the eruption.

Rascar Capac, the sinister creature featured on Hergé's album The Seven Crystal Balls (1948), has le...

Ancient pharaoh Akhenaten was almost lost to history. Canadian archaeologist Donald Redford, who unc...

In this hour-long documentary, Oxford academic Janina Ramirez tours the country in search of Anglo-S...

Filmed in IMAX, a young Mayan boy who lives close to the ruins becomes acquainted with an archaeolog...

This cinematic journey into the waters off East Africa chronicles the story behind artist Damien Hir...

Florian Hartung and Dirk Pohlmann have reconstructed a previously unknown dimension of the collabora...