Discovery

The discovery of farming created the roots of modern civilization.

Work began on the Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota in 1948. Those working on it now say they'll be gone before it's finished.

The Grand Canyon is nearly 300 miles long and over a mile deep. You could stack four Empire State buildings one on top of the other and they still wouldn't reach the lip of the Canyon.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a massive sculpture carved into Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills region of South Dakota. Completed in 1941 under the direction of Gutzon Borglum and his son Lincoln, the sculpture's roughly 60-ft.-high granite faces de...

The assassination of Abraham Lincoln is an event that has captivated people since 1865. In this episode of American Artifact, we're with Erik Dorr at The Gettysburg Museum of History to examine some RARE artifacts that are connected to the death of Americ...

How does a civilisation that lasted for several thousand years begin? Joann Fletcher talks us through the genesis of ancient Egypt and how its story progressed. Fletcher also discusses some of the common misconceptions about ancient Egypt, and how we're s...

A quick walk through of Vienna's capuchin crypt. Home to emperors and empresses of the Hasburg dynasty.

Runes aren't designed for writing Modern English, but many people want to try it anyway. In this video, an Old Norse expert looks at some of the challenges of doing that.

Krampus is a horned, anthropomorphic figure in Central and Eastern Alpine folklore who, during the Christmas season, scares children who have misbehaved.

Using the latest technology and research, a missing ancient wonder and once fabled city of the early Egyptian world are discovered beneath the Nile.

In the tombs that ancient Egyptians prepared for their deaths, they left a record of how they lived more than 3000 years ago, today. But the full meaning of many of the images remains a mystery. In almost every Egyptian tome one image stands out; the blue...

The Old Norse alphabet comprised of runes which was called the ‘futhark’. Futhark had several regional variations. It originally appeared in the 1st century CE. and continued to change over time.

Mummification was a sacred, transformative practice in Ancient Egypt - a ritual process that made one’s body and soul fit for existence in the afterlife. It begs the question: when and why did the Mummy become the popular movie monster that we are so fami...

It’s another sweltering morning in Memphis, Egypt. As the sunlight brightens the Nile, Peseshet checks her supplies. Honey, garlic, cumin, acacia leaves, cedar oil -- she’s well stocked with the essentials she needs to treat her patients. Elizabeth Cox ou...

As anyone who’s seen a mummy knows, ancient Egyptian priests went to a lot of trouble to evade decomposition. But how successful were they? Len Bloch details the mummification process and examines its results thousands of years later.

Death Whistles, Terrifying instruments of religion and war, were used by Ancient Aztecs to summon spirits and create horror and fear wherever they went.