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.

For centuries, Stonehenge has been cloaked in mystery. Who built it? How did they do it? Why did the...

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

An international team of art restorers and archaeologists begin work on the restoration of medieval ...

Why did the Roman Empire, which dominated Europe and the Mediterranean for five centuries, inexorabl...

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

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

Looking at whether the history of early human evolution should be rewritten. For decades, most exper...
The cutting edge group known as transhumanists see a beautiful future brought about by artificial in...

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

Explores the Pyramids of Giza as Egyptologists try to unravel the mysteries and decipher the clues b...

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

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

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