NOVA's groundbreaking investigation explores how new discoveries are transforming views of our earliest ancestors. Becoming Human explores the origins of us -where modern humans and our capacities for art, invention, and survival came from, and how our social history led to 3-5% of our genetic heritage being Neanderthal. Featuring interviews with world-renowned scientists, footage shot in the trenches as fossils were unearthed, and stunning computer-generated animation, Becoming Human brings early hominids to life, examining how they lived and how we became the creative and adaptable modern humans of today. In gripping forensic detail, we meet: Selam, the amazingly complete remains of a 3 million year-old child, packed with clues to why we split from the apes, came down from the trees, and started walking upright; Turkana Boy -a tantalizing fossil of Homo erectus, the first ancestor to leave Africa and colonize the globe. What led to this first great African exodus?
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Nova and National Geographic present exclusive access to an astounding discovery of ancient fossil h...
Move over, King Tut: There's a new pharaoh on the scene. A team of top archaeologists and forensics ...
For centuries, Stonehenge has been cloaked in mystery. Who built it? How did they do it? Why did the...
By decoding ancient hieroglyphic texts, Jean-François Champollion gave voice to an enigmatic civiliz...
This short documentary depicts the search, discovery and authentication of the only known Norse sett...
The story of the Trojan Horse is probably one of the most famous stories ever told: after ten years ...
It was the battle that decided the future of Europe: on August 26, 1278, two dynasties faced each ot...
Rascar Capac, the sinister creature featured on Hergé's album The Seven Crystal Balls (1948), has le...
As part of a high-tech forensic probe into the demise of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, scientists us...
Filmed in IMAX, a young Mayan boy who lives close to the ruins becomes acquainted with an archaeolog...
With the rapid advancements in artificial intelligence, the line between humans and machines continu...
What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the R...
More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...
Drama-led documentary following the life of Signe, an orphaned Chief's daughter, who, driven by reve...
This cinematic journey into the waters off East Africa chronicles the story behind artist Damien Hir...