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

A rejiggering of centuries of real history via fake news reports, and a restaging of a majestic work of theater within a virtual environment. A look back at a defining moment in our country’s history, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The dig might have uncovered some of the earliest victims of the Black Death, and other tantalizing clues about medieval life in the citadel. The Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula at the Tower of ...

Archaeologists return to Nineveh in northern Iraq, one of the ancient world’s grandest imperial capitals Archaeologists didn’t know what to expect when they began searching for a 2,700-year-old ...

The town of Port Royal is located at the mouth of Kingston Harbour in southeastern Jamaica. It was a major 17th-century English port city. A devastating earthquake in 1692 submerged much of the town ...

Here we are in the overlapping center of a Venn diagram showing pro-wrestling enthusiasts and PBS fans. You’ll find chops, suplexes, lucha libre dazzle, piledrivers, dropkicks, clotheslines, and maybe ...

If cinema made you care about coral reefs and raised your awareness about the brutal destruction they face (a.k.a. coral bleaching), Jeff Orlowski’s Emmy-winning documentary probably played a part in ...