In this special follow-up programme, the only television team with access to the dig and the scientific tests on the skeleton uses unseen footage and conducts two days of additional interviews to tell this extraordinary forensic detective story in even greater scientific and archaeological detail.

What killed King Tutankhamun? Ever since his spectacular tomb was discovered, the boy king has been ...

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

Mary Berry visits Harewood House in Yorkshire as it prepares for Christmas on a grand scale, and dem...

"The Last Dragon" is a nature mockumentary about a British scientific team that attempts to understa...

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

His opponents accused him of being homosexual. The male favorites he gathered around him during his ...

To mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Janina Ramirez tells the story of three books that...

Archaeologist Raksha Dave and historian Dan Snow return to Pompeii to gain special access to a varie...

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

Rascar Capac, the sinister creature featured on Hergé's album The Seven Crystal Balls (1948), has le...

As part of a high-tech forensic probe into the demise of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, scientists us...

Beneath the turquoise waves of the Bay of Naples lies an extraordinary underwater archeology site, t...

England, 11th century. William the Conqueror (ca. 1027-1087) wins the Battle of Hastings (1066), cha...

From the far north of Canada to the southern tip of Chile, through the southern United States, centr...

A documentary on the surviving syncretic pagan midwinter customs of the British Isles, focusing on n...

This cinematic journey into the waters off East Africa chronicles the story behind artist Damien Hir...

In 1921, in the Danish town of Egtved, on the Jutland peninsula, was discovered one of the most impo...