Credit: Tas Tepeler. While shooting a documentary at Göbeklitepe, I encountered strikingly different historical ...

But a new documentary series tells a different story: one about survivors. Pompeii: Out of Time, hosted by actor Tom Hiddleston of Marvel franchise fame, follows three real Romans through the last day ...

1. Its monumental structures stood alone in the middle of nowhere, without a nearby water source or surrounding domestic buildings, and were periodically visited by people traveling up to 200 ...

More than 120 ancient sites will be free to visit in Greece this month - Archaeological sites, museums and monuments will offer extended opening hours to celebrate the full moon ...

A new documentary has renewed attention on archaeologist Ahmad Din Siddiqi, whose work at Taxila and Mohenjo-daro remained under-recognised for decades. Sir John Marshall once wrote, “I never had a ...

As the host of National Geographic's "Pompeii: Out of Time," Marvel Cinematic Universe star Tom Hiddleston had reservations about showing the famous casts, created by filling the hollow impressions ...

Nothing was ever quite as it seemed as Anna Chapman charmed her way into the higher echelons of society. Plus: Tinie Tempah channels his inner Kevin McCloud. Here’s what to watch today ...

Two thousand years ago, people in Roman Egypt wrote letters, kept receipts, made lists and dealt with the everyday bureaucracy of life. Some of those pieces of ancient life are no ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Ann Arbor is thousands of miles — and thousands of years — away from Ancient Egypt, but one of ...

Bhopal: The Marathas won Bundelkhand from Mughals with the sword. But a 280-year-old letter found in Madhya Pradesh’s Datia ...

The American Pickers, the television series on The History Channel, is returning to Illinois and Iowa to film episodes this September. American Pickers is a documentary series created from ...

“You wake the dead.” Ken Burns offered that succinct description of his filmmaking at the Edinburgh Intl. Film Festival on ...