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.

In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning th...

In Cairo, a German-Egyptian team is searching for traces of the largest temple of the Pharaohs, seek...

Recent discoveries by archaeologists and researchers have shed new light on the Incas, shaking up ou...

With stunning views of eruptions and lava flows, Werner Herzog captures the raw power of volcanoes a...

Maya legend tells us that there is a hidden underground cave below Chichen Itza, now high tech archa...

Professor Joann Fletcher explores what it was like to be a woman of power in ancient Egypt. Through ...

In Morocco, new excavations on the site of Jebel Irhoud upset the generally accepted view of the dat...

Humanity’s ascent is often measured by the speed of progress. But what if progress is actually spira...

Women workers stand up to the toxic flower industry in Colombia.

Two hundred and fifty thousand years ago, the first direct representative of our species appeared on...

In 79 A.D., Mount Vesuvius erupted, killing 2,000 people. This documentary asks what happened next a...

Neil Oliver is given exclusive access to a team of historians and scientists investigating the final...

For centuries, archaeologists have been trying to understand the Aztec empire and reveal the truth a...

This explores the mysterious and catastrophic collapse of ancient civilizations during the late Bron...

In the name of the struggle against terrorism, a special operation - code named CONDOR - was conduct...

This documentary follows a team of local archaeologists excavating never before explored passageways...