Steven Spielberg has launched several franchises throughout his career, and he's hung around to direct some of the sequels, ...

Ah, the licensed video game. Once a collection of underwhelming retellings of big-screen blockbusters, littered with haunting polygonal nightmares (Hagrid, that’s you) and aimless Atari attempts (yes, ...

The Taj Story” is the latest in a slew of pseudo-historical films to emerge from Bollywood that critics say seek to erase ...

A lost Maya city. A submerged temple in Italy. Remarkably well-preserved swords in a cave by the Dead Sea. These finds changed our perspective on history. Egyptian officials announced in May the ...

Military enthusiasts can now own a piece of British naval history as a 19th century fort is coming on to the market.

Some time later, Parker is drawn back into Zen’s circle with the promise of stealing the archaeological artifacts and other assorted riches from a 15th-century Spanish galleon which is being held at ...

Hidden within the gleaming halls of European museums lie harrowing stories of treasures and artifacts looted from distant colonies. This documentary reveals the journey of these pieces from the moment ...

Chris Schalkx is a Dutch writer and photographer based in Bangkok and Taiwan. He writes about travel, sustainability, and design — preferably all three combined. Twenty years of planning and ...

Maureen Fazendeiro's cinematic journey through "wars and revolutions, fear and resistance" of the people in Alentejo, Portugal world premieres in the competition program at Locarno. By Georg Szalai ...

The Valley of the Kings and other bucket-list Egyptian destinations offer a glimpse into millennia-old majesty and artistry Smithsonian Photo Contest Galleries Text by Jeff Campagna and Tracy Scott ...

The sky was spring blue and the air mercifully dry on the day I visited the Gault School of Archaeological Research, about fifty miles north of Austin. Filmmaker Olive Talley spread out a cloth near ...