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.

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

49,000 year old Neanderthal bones have been discovered by chance in a remote, mountainous region of ...

In the mountains of Peru, an environmental scientist discovers ancient artifacts submerged beneath t...

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

This documentary delves into the mysteries surrounding the Neanderthals and what their fossil record...

In this hour-long documentary, Oxford academic Janina Ramirez tours the country in search of Anglo-S...
Documentary about the most popular music of the Andes -- Huayno music -- and explores the lives of t...

A backstage and on-stage look at Nicki Minaj's career during the Pink Friday Tour, festivals, and mo...

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

Filmed in IMAX, a young Mayan boy who lives close to the ruins becomes acquainted with an archaeolog...

Archaeologist Raksha Dave and historian Dan Snow return to Pompeii to gain special access to a varie...

From the far north of Canada to the southern tip of Chile, through the southern United States, centr...

Martijn Van Loo, a dedicated teacher who commutes from Brussels to Mechelen, struggles because of pe...

In northern Peru, the unprecedented archaeological discovery of the largest known mass child sacrifi...

Move over, King Tut: There's a new pharaoh on the scene. A team of top archaeologists and forensics ...