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.
Four friends tired of protests are thinking about another way to shake up capitalist society. Driven...
An international team of art restorers and archaeologists begin work on the restoration of medieval ...
49,000 year old Neanderthal bones have been discovered by chance in a remote, mountainous region of ...
Nova and National Geographic present exclusive access to an astounding discovery of ancient fossil h...
This short documentary depicts the search, discovery and authentication of the only known Norse sett...
The Incas appear out of nowhere and within a few decades their empire develops into the largest empi...
Filmed in IMAX, a young Mayan boy who lives close to the ruins becomes acquainted with an archaeolog...
Two thousand years ago, it was a flourishing city in the middle of what is now a Syrian desert. At t...
The adventures of Hergé, or how Georges Remi created The Adventures of Tintin. Interviews, archive f...
What killed King Tutankhamun? Ever since his spectacular tomb was discovered, the boy king has been ...
The story of the Trojan Horse is probably one of the most famous stories ever told: after ten years ...
Archaeologist Nicholas Zavaterro and his student find an antique vase with an inscription that point...
More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...
Documentary about the most popular music of the Andes -- Huayno music -- and explores the lives of t...
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...