The acclaimed British historian tells SBS how she followed ancient paths and used modern technology to explore the link between history and myth.

The strange and powerful symbol at the heart of one of history’s greatest temples reveals the importance of the goddess ...

From the serious to the hilarious, the inspiring to the challenging, there’s a documentary for everyone streaming at SBS On Demand.

From Riot Women, the new series from the creator of Happy Valley, to true-crime drama Murdaugh: Death in the Family, to Tom Hollander’s mind-bending thriller The Iris Affair, here’s what to look ...

KING Tutankhamun’s tomb is on the brink of collapse and could crumble down in a devastating disaster, archaeologists have ...

The Murdaughs were a prominent South Carolina family steeped in law and local politics for generations, so much so that one judicial district in the state’s Lowcountry region was colloquially named ...

Healing the blind, raising the dead, commanding nature—were these divine miracles or powerful magic by ancient standards? Some early sources saw Jesus very differently Hearing Abruptly Halted Amid ...

The writers of antiquity thought very little of the people who lived on the fringes of their own empires and had even less regard for the societies that existed beyond them. When the Roman poet Ovid ...

Turns out, ancient body art is a lot more common than we once thought—and it's providing historians with new ways of understanding our ancestors. Archaeologist Aaron Deter-Wolf, pictured in his office ...

This special report delves into the cultural phenomenon of Rishab Shetty's film 'Kantara', which has cast a spotlight on the ancient Tulu traditions of coastal Karnataka. The narrative explores the ...

An ancient sculpture from the collection of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is headed back to Iraq, where it was made, but not before yielding vital new information about ancient artists’ ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Staten Island Herb Society will delve into the dark side of botanical history when it presents Ancient Poisons at its Oct. 27 meeting at the Biddle House in Tottenville.