Archaeologists have located the remains of the CSS Alabama, which cost the Union many ships during the Civil War.
Mosaics and art of Macedonia.
Capt. Martin Frobisher searches for the Northwest Passage to the Orient.
High-tech medical studies of victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Archaeologists attempt to excavate the HMS Pandora, lost on the Great Barrier Reef in 1791.
Infant skeletons suggest that an epidemic of malaria swept through Rome.
Archaeologists study possible clues to the fall of the Maya.
The city of Sagalassos.
Exhumation of 300 mummies in Chile has revealed much about early South American inhabitants.
Details of the Spanish colony that existed in St. Augustine, Fla.
A crater is all that remains of a Cold War nuclear test site in the Nevada desert.
An excavation in Fort Edward, N.Y., reveals the story of British irregulars known as Rogers' Rangers.
The Kamasutra.
Burial sites of early nomadic tribes are examined, exposing the high honors given to women.
Archaeologists uncover French and Indian War remains at Fort William Henry in northern New York.
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.
French divers find prehistoric rock paintings.
Heinrich Schliemann finds Priam's treasure in 1870.
Remains of the Confederate ironclad Merrimack lie off Virginia's coast.
Excavations reveal Minoan influence in the late Bronze Age.
Excavations shed light on slavery north of the Mason-Dixon Line.
Research suggests a female counterpart to Yaweh.
Studying mummies, archaeologists learn of everyday Egyptian life.
Three-dimensional graphics show how Easter Islanders moved stone images.
Missionaries of the 16th century report New World cannibalism.
A Dead Sea cave may have sheltered Lot from Sodom and Gomorrah's destruction.
Archaeologists find sacrificial remains near Mexican pyramids.
Brazilian discoveries may revise thought on North American prehistory.
Egypt's influence on classical Greece.
Unmarked graves near Antietam, Md., contain the remains of four Union soldiers.
Angkor, Cambodia, is 124 square miles of temples surrounded by jungle.
Earthquakes; Sodom and Gomorrah; parting of the Red Sea.
Temples of Demeter and Kore lie under a medieval castle on Lesbos.
Excavations shed light on Philistine character.
A pre-Mayan civilization builds pyramids and the city of El Tajin.
The metropolis of Petra is abandoned circa 600 B.C.
A complete orchestra with a large bronze bell occupies an ancient Chinese tomb.
Archaeologists unearth the bones of the builders of the Sphinx.
Texas excavations reveal pre-Columbian Apache life.
A dig uncovers an earlier settlement at the Roanoke Lost Colony site.
Wetlands preserve ancient bodies and artifacts.
The Peruvian Day of the Dead stems from Moche tradition.