Over the centuries, Mont Saint-Michel, an extraordinary island located in the delta of the Couesnon River, in Normandy, France, a place floating between the sea and the sky, has been a sanctuary, an abbey, a fortress and a prison. But how was this architectural wonder built?

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...

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

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

June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet, few know ...

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

Rascar Capac, the sinister creature featured on Hergé's album The Seven Crystal Balls (1948), has le...

A documentary, using dramatization of fact, that examines the Battle of Verrières Ridge, where on Ju...

A filmmaker returns to Normandy thirty years after a working on a movie based on a local homicide an...

Mohawk archaeologist Baptiste Asigny engages in a search for his ancestors following a tragic terrai...

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

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

In 1921, in the Danish town of Egtved, on the Jutland peninsula, was discovered one of the most impo...

England, 11th century. William the Conqueror (ca. 1027-1087) wins the Battle of Hastings (1066), cha...

England, 15th century. Hal, a capricious prince who lives among the populace far from court, is forc...

A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal village where an earlier attempt to build a defe...