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.

By decoding ancient hieroglyphic texts, Jean-François Champollion gave voice to an enigmatic civiliz...

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

In this gripping investigation, archaeologist Pepi Papakosta is on a hunt for Alexander the Great's ...

Drama-led documentary following the life of Signe, an orphaned Chief's daughter, who, driven by reve...

Just off the southern coast of mainland Greece lies the oldest submerged city in the world. It thriv...

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

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

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...

An international team of art restorers and archaeologists begin work on the restoration of medieval ...

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

5000 years ago the ancient Elamites established a glorious civilization that lasted about three mill...
A documentary about archaeology, which, based on traces and finds hidden underground, creates a pict...

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

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...

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 ...

Documentary following a team of technicians in Italy as they reconstruct a number of historic Middle...