The internet and social media are full of lies. Why? The truth is often boring and sometimes discomfiting. Lies are better, ...

Tucked away in the picturesque river town of Le Claire, Antique Archaeology stands as a monument to America’s past – a place where forgotten treasures find new life and where bargain hunters and ...

Born in 1935 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, von Däniken was the son of a cloth manufacturer and grew up under strict religious ...

Long before Mount Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii, the city was home to unexpected Egyptian influences that continue to puzzle ...

Erich von Däniken, who has died aged 90, was among the first writers to suggest that human civilisation, and even human ...

Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose books on the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him both ...

Erich von Däniken, author who spawned alien archaeology theory, dies at 90 - The Swiss author whose bestselling books about ...

Upheaval and uncertainty swirled around the splendid cities of the Roman Empire at the end of the third century a.d. When a new emperor, Diocletian, took the throne in a.d. 284, he set about righting ...

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...

Brazilian director Petra Costa follows up on her Oscar-nominated film The Edge of Democracy, an examination of the collapses of the left-wing governments of Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff, with ...

As the year closes, it’s time to pay tribute to some of the best documentaries of 2025. Many of these are heavy, often depressing features, because good documentarians hold up a mirror to the times ...