History

Discoveries from the past and how they shaped the present.

More than a century after Tutankhamun, archaeologists in Egypt are still uncovering tombs, temples and lost cities beneath the desert.

In the ancient city of Alexandria stood a great library that tried to collect all the knowledge of the world.

The Great Wall is not one wall but many, built over centuries by different rulers to protect China from attacks in the north.

In southern Turkey, Göbekli Tepe was built around 11,000 years ago — long before the pyramids — and is changing how we see early people.