In Morocco, new excavations on the site of Jebel Irhoud upset the generally accepted view of the dating of the appearance of man.

On the same day that Stalin was buried, Sergei Prokofiev's funeral took place completely unnoticed. ...

For the first time, survivors talk about life after the camps. How does one return to a life that wa...

Woolly Mammoth: Secrets from the Ice is a documentary presented by English anatomist Dr. Alice Rober...

At the edge of our solar system supposedly lies an immense planet. Five to ten times the size of the...

A stop-motion adaptation of the 1981 novel by geologist Dougal Dixon of the same name, which explore...

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

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

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

In the first decades of the 20th century, when life was being transformed by scientific innovations,...

Forensic experts scan Pompeii’s victims to investigate why they didn’t escape the eruption.

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 montage of newscasts tracing the events of the "damned war" and the German invasion of 1940.

Using original footage and interviews, this documentary tells the nail-biting story of Apollo 13 and...

On the eve of the publication of a biography of Claude Jutra, one of the most famous and celebrated ...

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting t...