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Secrets of the Dead is part detective story, part true-life drama that unearths evidence from around the world, challenging prevailing ideas and throwing fresh light on unexplained events.

Priceless artifacts in Laos reveal holy sites from the early days of the Khmer Empire.
An archaeological team recreates the ascent that Khmer kings would have made up the holy mountain.
Archaeologists dig through layers of earth in search of evidence of pre-Angkorian habitation.
SECRETS OF THE DEAD is made possible, in part, by public television viewers.
Episodes
Watch the full episode of Secrets of the Dead: Bugging Hitler’s Soldiers
Find out how and why 57 Irish immigrants to the U.S. died in 1832.
Watch the full episode of Secrets of the Dead: Ultimate Tut.
THIRTEEN Recounts Walter Cronkite’s Iconic News Coverage of the JFK Assassination
Examine new forensic techniques being used to study the famed explorer’s lost diary.
Learn why Franklin held human skeletal remains in the basement of his British residence.
Uncover evidence that could explain how ancient Greeks got inside the walls of Troy
Discover the truth about the first permanent English colony in the New World
Take a look at the life of Nero and find out what history may have gotten wrong about him.
Where did Hannibal and his army cross the Alps to launch a surprise attack on Rome?
New evidence suggests the legend of King Arthur began in a Dark Ages trading village.
Archaeologists discover a mass grave with the bones of nearly 60 people near Luxor, Egypt.
Extras
Archaeologists find a small cymbal dating back to the 7th century.
In 2022, a team of archaeologists unearthed a strange burial in the Polish village of Pień.
A forensic artist reconstructs the face of a woman buried as a vampire in 17-century Poland.
A team searches for the remains of the soldiers slain in the Simpsonville Massacre.
The search for the remains of 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry in Kentucky begins.
Researcher Valeria Piano discovers long-lost history of Rome written by Seneca the Elder.
Artificial intelligence is used to find out what some carbonized Herculaneum scrolls say.
Letters between siblings Wolfgang and Maria Anna Mozart suggest she, too, composed music.
Is there evidence Maria Anna Mozart composed music recorded in her childhood notebook?
The discovery of priceless artifacts in Laos sheds light on the ancient Khmer Empire.