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.

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

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

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

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

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

The last two surviving members of the Piripkura people, a nomadic tribe in the Mato Grosso region of...

In northern Peru, the unprecedented archaeological discovery of the largest known mass child sacrifi...

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

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

Beneath the turquoise waves of the Bay of Naples lies an extraordinary underwater archeology site, t...

Images of Argentinian companies and factories in the first light of day, seen from the inside of a c...

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

Cartoneras is a documentary that grapples with Latin America’s urban realities, and the cardboard pu...

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

A whimsical blend of live action and animation, "Saludos Amigos" is a colorful kaleidoscope of art, ...

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

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