Translation of Mayan hieroglyphics has dispelled long-standing myths surrounding Mayan culture.

Discovering lost American Indian cultures as archaeologists chart the trail of Hernando de Soto's arrival in North America.

Norwegian sailor Ragnar Thorseth attempts to re-create the expeditions of his ancestors.

Computer graphics reconstruct the ancient Karanga city of Zimbabwe.

Some Middle Eastern scholars doubt Joshua's conquest of Jericho.

Masada in the Negev Desert is the site of the last Jewish revolt against Rome.

A study of Heinrich Himmler, head of the Gestapo and SS, and his work to gather support for Hitler's racial theories.

Suppressed accounts of Egyptian influence on Greek technology, philosophy and political theory.

German archaeologists reveal evidence of a massacre that occurred in A.D. 9.

The controversy surrounding the discovery of the Neanderthal skeleton in Germany in 1856.

An archaeological expedition in southeastern Utah yields possible answers concerning human life 8,000 years ago.

Scientists simulate the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

The English establish Jamestown in a quest for gold.