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8 Episodes 2026 - 2026
Episode 1
A young boy accidentally uncovers an Egyptian Royal cache of mummies and treasure that will deepen our understanding of ancient Egypt. Among the sarcophagi, hides a mystery. An unidentified mummy frozen in a death scream, hastily mummified.
Episode 2
Danish peat farmers discover what they believe to be a dead animal. But this is no dead animal and no one realizes this is actually the body of a woman, found only a few meters away from another mummified man, could the two bodies be related?
Episode 3
Male and female mummies languish in the dusty attic of a Swiss school for more than a century. Their origins are uncovered by modern-day forensics, when then leads investigators across the ocean to determine how the bodies arrived in Europe.
Episode 4
Discovered in a Danish bog and now kept at the National Museum of Denmark, the Huldremose Woman is defined as much by what she wore as how she died. Wrapped in textiles from many regions, her clothing suggests a life more complex than expected.
Episode 5
When the mummy of Pharaoh Seqenenre Tao II was pulled from a hidden royal cache in 1881, the wounds covering his skull sparked a mystery that would take over a century to solve. Ruling a divided Egypt around 1580 BCE, Seqenenre led the Theban resistance against the Hyksos invaders from the north, and paid for it with his life at age 40. For decades, historians debated whether he died in battle, was murdered in his sleep, or something far more sinister. Forensic radiologist Dr. Sahar Saleem uses cutting-edge CT scanning to examine his mummy in detail no one has ever seen before. What she finds will rewrite the story of how this pharaoh died, and why it changed the course of Egyptian history.
Episode 6
The discovery of Rendswühren Man in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany in 1871 sends shock-waves through the archaeological world. Preserved for centuries in the peat, his body is eerily intact—but the circumstances of his death are anything but clear. As experts peel back layers of history, the question of who Rendswühren Man was and how he died becomes clearer.
Episode 7
In the frozen landscape of Greenland, a chance discovery reveals eight bodies—perfectly preserved, as if time simply stopped. Their faces, their clothing, even their final positions offer unsettling clues to a shared fate. But the deeper the investigation goes, the more the story fractures—suggesting choices made under unimaginable pressure.
Episode 8
From a peat bog near Aarhus, Denmark a man emerges, his face intact, his death seemingly anything but peaceful. His throat was cut, his body placed with care, preserved in eerie detail down to his fingerprints. Is this the body of a modern man or ancient? Was he a human sacrifice, a criminal, or the victim of an accidental death. The clearer his story becomes, the more elusive the truth behind his final moments seem.