Rascar Capac, the sinister creature featured on Hergé's album The Seven Crystal Balls (1948), has left its mark on many generations of readers. To draw it, the Belgian cartoonist was probably inspired by a mummy exhibited in the first pre-Columbian exhibition organized by the Brussels Cinquantenaire Museum in 1923. Two intrepid archaeologists embark on a fascinating journey to reconstruct the story of the mysterious mummy.
In summer 2003, when the heatwave hit in Europe, in Switzerland, the glacier below the Schnidejoch p...
The sinking of the RMS Titanic remains one of the most enduring and mysterious tragedies of the 20th...
Brussels, Belgium, 1959. Michel and Charly Kichka, two Jewish brothers, enjoy a happy childhood with...
Georges Remi, known as Hergé, a complex and complicated artist, created Tintin, one of the most famo...
In this special follow-up programme, the only television team with access to the dig and the scienti...
Manon daydreams about the new customer in her aunt's hair salon. She must be a sea-queen, listening ...
This documentary follows a team of local archaeologists excavating never before explored passageways...
Strange things are happening in the evening at the mansion: glass things break without any apparent ...
Documentary that discovers all the secrets of mummification in the Canary Islands thanks to pioneeri...
What killed King Tutankhamun? Ever since his spectacular tomb was discovered, the boy king has been ...
Archaeologist Nicholas Zavaterro and his student find an antique vase with an inscription that point...
In 1587, more than 100 English colonists settle on Roanoke Island and soon vanish, baffling historia...
A café in the north of Brussels. Days are punctuated by the songs that the customers sing at all hou...
Séfar (in Arabic: سيفار) is an ancient city in the heart of the Tassili n'Ajjer mountain range in Al...
The Smurfs were created in 1958 by the Belgian comic author Peyo (Pierre Culliford, 1928-1992) and t...
The adventures of Hergé, or how Georges Remi created The Adventures of Tintin. Interviews, archive f...