During an Arctic expedition, naval officer Richard Burn makes a very unusual discovery, in this clip from Season 18, "Secrets of Inner Earth."

8 charts in one! Included is a family tree of the ancient Egyptian gods, a timeline of Egyptian history, a map of Upper and Lower Egypt, a guide to Egyptian hieroglyphs, information on Egypt's 12 largest pyramids, and family tree charts for the most famou...

Discover the works of poet and songwriter Sappho, and find out why only fragments of her poetry still survive.

Deep inside Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library lies a 240 page tome. Recently carbon dated to around 1420, its pages feature looping handwriting and hand drawn images seemingly stolen from a dream. It is called the Voynich manuscript, and it...

In 1974, farmers digging a well near their small village stumbled upon one of the most important finds in archaeological history – vast underground chambers surrounding a Chinese emperor’s tomb that contained more than 8,000 life-size clay soldiers ready...

Worst drought in 500 years. As water levels across much of Europe are at the lowest in centuries, historical artifacts once submerged are now being uncovered. Including this 5,000-7,000 year old "Spanish Stonehenge".

The Younger Futhark, also called Scandinavian runes, is a runic alphabet and a reduced form of the Elder Futhark, with only 16 characters, in use from about the 9th century, after a "transitional period" during the 7th and 8th centuries.

Anglo-Saxon runes are an extended version of Elder Futhark consisting of between 26 and 33 letters. It is thought that they were used to write Old English / Anglo-Saxon and Old Frisian from about the 5th century AD.

The Elder Futhark, also known as the Older Futhark, Old Futhark, or Germanic Futhark, is the oldest form of the runic alphabets. It was a writing system used by Germanic peoples for Northwest Germanic dialects in the Migration Period.

The elite women of ancient Greece and Rome regularly used cosmetics, a custom that was adopted from the ancient Egyptians. During the Middle Ages the tradition continued only among the nobility, as most of the peasant classes didn’t have the money for suc...

Why The Ancient Greeks Couldn't See Blue. Every color and/or shade have not existed since the dawn of time. Not to mention the word itself.

Explore a dreamlike realm where flora and fauna have evolved to use spells. A breakdown of Luca Vanzella’s surreal worldbuilding project ‘Codex Inversus.’

What Was The "Boring Billion" Really Like?

How exactly does meditation affect your body?

Could megalithic structures of the ancient world have once been used as data storage units? And could the high crystal content of certain megaliths have facilitated such date storage? Here we examine the controversial claims of those researchers who suppo...