Archaeology

From excavations deep in the jungles of Honduras to the most recent interpretations of hieroglyphic messages, researchers are unraveling the fascinating story of the rise and fall of the Mayans.

Archaeologists study the tragic massacre of Native peoples following the footsteps of conquistador de Soto.

In 1856, workmen in a cave in the Neander valley near Dussseldorf, Germany, unearthed a human skeleton. And from this discovery began a lengthy dispute: did the Neanderthal man represent an abnormal modern human? Or an extinct ancestor?

Rising out of the highlands of Sub-Saharan Africa are the ruins of the long-secluded, spectacular Great Zimbabwe. Their work has been dismissed by racist explorers as the work of some ancient black civilization.

Here, for the first time, is the story of how archeology was used not only to manipulate information about the past, but also to legitimize the genocidal regime of the Nazis.

Thanks to ballistics, archaeologists are able to reconstruct the course of the Battle of Little Bighorn.