Around four million years ago, ape-like creatures discovered the advantages of walking upright. The starting point of a fascinating journey that, with many dead ends and setbacks, leads to modern man, who populates the whole world as a successful model of evolution. The impressive computer animations bring viewers closer to prehistoric and early man than ever before. The film also accompanies the world-renowned paleoanthropologist Friedemann Schrenk from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt to hotspots of human history between South Africa and Europe. The film shows documentary scenes from the hotspots of human history as well as spectacular computer animations.

Nova and National Geographic present exclusive access to an astounding discovery of ancient fossil h...

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A slide about the importance of accidental archaeological finds for the development of archaeologica...

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By decoding ancient hieroglyphic texts, Jean-François Champollion gave voice to an enigmatic civiliz...

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

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

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

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

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