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...

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

With loans from across the world, this major retrospective will bring together Vermeer’s most famous...

Death and the devil, nudity and eroticism, horror in blazing colours, Gothic art cast a spell over p...

When the revolution in Nicaragua won its victory nearly 40 years ago, the world began to dream. A yo...

Between June 1940 and March 1943, the 1,200 kilometer long demarcation line broke France in two. For...

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

The world's leading Egyptologists are on a quest to uncover the secrets of Howard Carter's history-m...

The female breast has been a motif for as long as there has been art. For centuries, people have bee...

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

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

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

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

Discovered about twenty years ago, the immense masses of water vapor that fly over the Amazon, calle...

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

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

How would natural habitats develop without human interference? In this documentary we follow an inte...

A portrait of the visionary Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898-1972), according to his own words, taken...

Tadao Ando, a self-taught architect, proposes an international architecture that he believes can onl...

Oliver is a chimpanzee who not only can walk upright, but does of his own accord. For years there ha...