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Secrets of the Dead Season 16 Episodes
Season 16 Episode Guide
5 Episodes 2016 - 2017
Episode 1
After Stonehenge
55 mins
Archaeologists have long believed that while the Egyptians were building pyramids 3,000 years ago, the people living in Western Europe were far less advanced. But a new discovery suggests something far more exciting. Five years ago, the remains of an incredible, ancient site began to emerge from a quarry in eastern England. Due to its delicate nature, experts have largely been working in secret - until now. What they've found is simply unheard of: a 3000-year-old settlement that would have risen above the marshy fens, made up of well-built houses on stilts. A thriving economic hub the size of a modern country town surrounded this settlement - complete with busy harbors and rivers packed with metalwork traders, selling their goods across Europe. Shockingly, evidence suggests the town may have been attacked and set afire before being abandoned. The ancient artifacts - unprecedented in number and quality - are telling a dramatically new story about Bronze Age life in Britain.
Episode 2
Van Gogh's Ear
Wed, Dec 14, 2016
Scientists investigate what happened on the night of Dec. 23, 1888, when in Arles, France Vincent van Gogh cut his ear off.
Episode 3
Nero's Sunken City
Wed, Mar 29, 201755 mins
Baiae...An ancient Roman city lost to the same volcanoes that entombed Pompeii. But unlike Pompeii, Baiae sits under water, in the Bay of Naples. Nearly 2,000 years ago, the city was an escape for Rome's rich and powerful elite, a place where they were free of the social restrictions of Roman society. It was the Las Vegas of its day. Now, a team of archaeologists is mapping the underwater ruins and piecing together what life was like in this playground for the rich. There were vast villas, elaborate spas, and raucous parties on barges floating in the bay. No expense was spared to create a wonderland. Baiae was also the site of some of the most treacherous political dealings of ancient Rome with Emperor Nero and his enemies hatching deadly plots against each other. And then, the city sank into the ocean, to be forgotten in the annals of history until now. What made Baiae such a special place? And what happened to it?
Episode 4
Leonardo: The Man Who Saved Science
Wed, Apr 5, 201755 mins
Did Leonardo da Vinci come up with all of his ideas and inventions by himself or did he also borrow some of them from ancient scientists including those who lived 1,700 years before him.
Episode 6
Secrets of Spanish Florida
Tue, Dec 26, 2017115 mins
Secrets of the Dead special about the history of the first and largely key Spanish colony in North America, the town of St. Augustine, Florida. Although established even before Jamestown, its symbolic key place in U.S. history as the first melting pot in North America had sadly been ignored and largely forgotten over time by most history books that subscribe to the British narrative about the creation of America. While enormous amounts of blood were spilled over the centuries over who gets to rule Florida between Spain, England and later the U.S., Florida had always been a place where cultures and races meet and mix as well as the first free territory for former slaves in the North American south before, first the British, and later the U.S. took it over.
