Provides facts about Easter Island and explores common myths and mysteries about the island.

Presents the ancient Egyptian pyramids, describing what they look like, theories about how they were built, and how they reflect ancient Egyptian beliefs about death and the afterlife of their rulers, the pharaohs.

Provides facts about the Great Wall of China and explores common myths and mysteries about the structure.

Legend has it that the original Ten Commandments handed down from God to Moses were placed inside an ark which was last seen in Jerusalem in 587 B.C. This search for the Ark of the Covenant travels to ancient Palestine to dig for answers, where historic illustrations shed light on the date of the Ark's last sighting. The trail next leads to wondrous artifacts that bear witness to mankind's obsession with the Ark and its contents. As shifting sands...

5,000 years ago, a group of Stone Age farmers began work on the most astonishing structure In Neolithic Europe. The task would take them one and a half millennia to complete. What prompted them to embark on such a project, and what do the alignments of the stones really signify?