A team of archaeologists examines an ensemble of finely crafted gold and silver artifacts from a temple in Laos. The expedition takes the researchers from the vault where the treasure is now housed to ancient temples hidden deep in the jungle. The team makes spectacular discoveries at excavation sites scanned from the air...

A montage of newscasts tracing the events of the "damned war" and the German invasion of 1940.

Everyone thinks that Bob Kane created Batman, but that’s not the whole truth. One author makes it hi...

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

The sun is the miracle that makes everything possible - but also the greatest danger. For the first ...

During the Vietnam War, the US bombed Laos more heavily than any other country had been bombed befor...

How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui – also known as Easter Island – carved and raised, and wh...

In 1847, British writer Emily Brontë (1818-48), perhaps the most enigmatic of the three Brontë siste...

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...

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

Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert ...

Why did the Roman Empire, which dominated Europe and the Mediterranean for five centuries, inexorabl...

Yesterday, today, tomorrow. The days pass, and so does life. Watching the waves to come and go, Laur...

Banksy is the world's most infamous street artist, whose political art, criminal stunts and daring i...

Laos: the most bombed country, per capita, on the planet. Australian bomb disposal specialist Laith ...