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.

Druids have existed far longer than hitherto assumed, since the 4th century BC. Their traces are fou...

Documentary following a team of technicians in Italy as they reconstruct a number of historic Middle...

This short documentary depicts the search, discovery and authentication of the only known Norse sett...

Fifty years after the coup and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, Cypriot and foreign archaeologists, a...

Was the Brussels Innovation fire (1967) just a dramatic accident or was there more going on? Through...

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

Since November 2022, the Brussels prisons of Saint-Gilles, Forest and Berkendael have been moving to...

Drama-led documentary following the life of Signe, an orphaned Chief's daughter, who, driven by reve...

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

In this hour-long documentary, Oxford academic Janina Ramirez tours the country in search of Anglo-S...

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

5000 years ago the ancient Elamites established a glorious civilization that lasted about three mill...

Move over, King Tut: There's a new pharaoh on the scene. A team of top archaeologists and forensics ...
Four friends tired of protests are thinking about another way to shake up capitalist society. Driven...
A documentary about archaeology, which, based on traces and finds hidden underground, creates a pict...

A portrait of Spanish comic book author Paco Plaza.

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