In this interview, conducted during NOVA's dig at the Cave of Letters some 40 years after his finds there, Porat fondly reminisces about his team's discoveries and explains the importance of the ...

Here, Tung Wu, Head of the Department of Art of Asia, Oceania, and Africa at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) and consultant for the NOVA program "Sultan's Lost Treasure," reveals some of the ...

Countless treasure-seekers have set ... Major funding for NOVA is provided by the NOVA Science Trust, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and PBS viewers.

Seven times, from 1405 to 1433, the treasure fleets set off for the unknown. These seven great expeditions brought a vast web of trading links—from Taiwan to the Persian Gulf—under Chinese ...

Another treasure that supposedly still lies buried ... Peter Tyson is Online Producer of NOVA.

Writers on shows like 'Frontline' and 'NOVA' have voted to authorize a strike if a new contract cannot be agreed by midnight ...

Early in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), an expansion of seaborne trade took place with the construction of an immense treasure fleet—reported to consist of 317 ships when it was assembled in ...

Michael Crichton wrote "Jurassic Park" with it in mind. Robert Louis Stevenson may have based his classic "Treasure Island" on it. Cocos Island, 300 miles off the coast of Costa Rica, is legendary ...