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.

Documentary on French cartoonist Jean Graton and how Michel Vaillant was born.

Archaeologist Nicholas Zavaterro and his student find an antique vase with an inscription that point...

Over the centuries, Mont Saint-Michel, an extraordinary island located in the delta of the Couesnon ...

Thousands of years before the Inca, a megalithic civilization was founded at Lake Titicaca which spr...

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

In this hour-long documentary, Oxford academic Janina Ramirez tours the country in search of Anglo-S...
Insomnies is an impressionistic look at the city at night, avoiding the clichés of commercial or tou...

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

Emperors of Nothing is an unprecedented immersion within Forest, a prison in Brussels notorious for ...

Documentary following the 1955–1956 Norwegian Archaeological Expedition's investigations of Polynesi...

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...

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

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

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