In the early 1900s, a curious boy grew up in an ordinary family in Munich. At age 10, he already buried himself in books about politics and religion. A bright future beckoned, before his life took a ...

Watching an American icon like Indiana Jones battle Nazis in “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” it’s hard to believe that it was actually a German cultural institute which played a pivotal role in ...

In this episode, we delve into the bizarre yet chilling reality behind Nazi archaeology. Inspired by Heinrich Himmler’s SS-backed Ahnenerbe Institute, the Third Reich sought to prove Germans were ...

Introduction: the global reach of imperial and colonial archaeology / Bonnie Effros and Guolong Lai -- Part I. Defining approaches to imperial and colonial archaeology -- Archaeology and imperialism: ...

Steven Spielberg's portrayal of the Nazis in the Indiana Jones movies is surprisingly accurate. The fictional Nazi villains' attempts to secure the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail were based on ...