21世纪末，人类的科技水平已高度发达，克隆人技术和宇宙航行早已实现，不再是梦想。与此同时，许多科学家仍孜孜不倦追索着人类起源的秘密与真相。通过对许多古老文明的考察与对比，科学家伊丽莎白·肖和查理·赫洛维发现，人类可能是来自一个遥远星系的外星人创造的。在维兰德公司的资助下，他们乘坐维克丝所掌管的宇宙飞船普罗米修斯号前往那颗未知的星球。经过对当地的考察，地球人的设想成功得到印证。可是他们贸然探查“神的秘密”的行为，也将自己引入万劫不复的深渊……
在 1890 年代，一个英国考古学家团队发现了阿南卡（Ananka）公主的未受破坏的坟墓，但意外地让她的大祭司木乃伊化的尸体恢复了生机。 三年后回到英格兰，一名信奉同一埃及宗教的追随者释放木乃伊，对神圣过去的掠夺者进行可怕的报复。 一个接一个的考古学家由于发现了有4000年历史的阿南卡（Ananka）公主墓，他们都被残忍地杀害了。40世纪前，埃及的大祭司哈利斯（Kharis）被古代神的力量复活，他的唯一目的是摧毁那些对亵渎圣墓负有责任的人。但其中一名探险家的妻子伊莎贝尔（Isobel）酷似美丽的公主，迫使这只无言且饱受折磨的怪物违抗命令，将伊莎贝尔绑架到一个未知的命运。
该纪录片将为观众呈现埃及考古学家在挖掘出一个未曾接触过4,400年的坟墓之后，试图破译这一惊人发现的历史。
A group of archaeologists uncover a strange structure in Northern Canada, dating over ten thousand years before the present. The team finds themselves isolated when their communication systems fail and it's not long before they begin to feel the effects of the solitude.
In Sofia, Bulgaria, Lt. Col. John Hart, Lt. Rick Burns and an elite team of Navy SEALS are on a mission to stop the transfer of missile guidance technology to a Mid-Eastern country. The system's computer control is hidden in a fake archaeological site - the Lost City of Rajkumar.
In 1872, in the cave of Cavillon in Monaco, archaeologist Émile Rivière (1835-1922) unearthed an apparently very old human skeleton, at least 24,000 years old, a discovery that changed the modern image of prehistoric men and women.
In Israel, a joint French-Israeli scientific mission is set to unearth the secrets of the hill of Kiryath-Jearim (or Kiryat Ya’arim), converted to the site of a Catholic convent, where, according to the Bible, the Ark of the Covenant was kept for at least twenty years before being brought to Jerusalem by King David, father of King Solomon, who would eventually build the Holy of Holies inside the First Temple to house it.
What life was like in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii moments before it was devastated by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79.
For decades, secular archaeologists have regularly announced discoveries that seem to contradict the Bible. A prime example of this was a conclusion by renowned archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon, who stated publicly that the Biblical account of the conquest of Jericho could not possibly be factual. This eye-opening video shows how Biblical Archaeology uncovered the true story about the battle for Jericho. To experience the detective-like quest of Biblical Archaeology, viewers will join an actual dig in Israel to begin a search for Joshua's Ai at Khirbet el-Maqatir with Dr. Bryant Wood and Gary Byers. Become part of the fascinating process of selecting the site, preparing for the excavation, and peeling back the layers of time to reveal the clues to ancient history.