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13 Episodes 2019 - 2020
Episode 1
Sun, Nov 3, 201942 mins
There's a lost city buried in the Sahara, and evidence reveals it's home to Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, and the forbidden god of an outlawed religion; experts use cutting-edge tech to uncover the secret doomsday that caused this place to disappear.
Episode 2
Sun, Nov 10, 201942 mins
When Pompeii was destroyed by an apocalyptic volcano in 79 AD, another Roman town was also destroyed and experts now use cutting-edge tech to investigate the secrets of Vesuvius' second victim.
Episode 3
Sun, Nov 17, 201942 mins
Troy is the legendary lost city at the center of the Trojan War, but its existence has never been confirmed; new discoveries and cutting-edge science might prove if Troy existed and if the Greeks really conquered it with the infamous Trojan Horse.
Episode 4
Sun, Nov 24, 201942 mins
Mount Rushmore is one of America's most iconic landmarks, but there are dark mysteries behind its presidential faces; experts use cutting-edge tech and the latest science to reveal what lies beneath the rock and the secret history of its creation.
Episode 5
Sun, Dec 8, 2019
The Tower of Babel is one of the most famous stories of the Bible. To find out if it really existed, archaeologists use cutting-edge tech and the latest science to investigate how ancient engineers could have built such an extraordinary structure.","detailed":"Babylon's Tower of Babel is the setting of one of the most famous stories in the Old Testament: a tower so tall it was said to have reached the heavens and angered God. Today, ancient Babylon is in modern-day Iraq, but did it really exist? How could ancient builders construct a tower of such a staggering height? Was it circular in shape, as depicted by medieval artists? Enjoying rare access to this war-torn site, investigators are uncovering the long-forgotten secrets of the tower and finally answering the question: is the Bible story true?
Episode 6
Sun, Dec 15, 201942 mins
The long-lost underground bunker of Adolf Hitler is home to some of the greatest secrets of the Nazi regime, and now, experts use cutting-edge tech to discover new evidence of Hitler's evil vision for global domination.
Episode 7
Sun, Dec 22, 201941 mins
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is one of the world's most iconic buildings, and it's also the site of an 800-year-old mystery; using cutting-edge tech, experts investigate the archaeological evidence to reveal when it might finally fall over.
Episode 8
Sun, Dec 29, 201942 mins
The gunfight at Tombstone's OK Corral turned Wyatt Earp into an American folk hero, and to find what really happened here, experts use the newest tech to discover what caused the fatal shootout and what it reveals about the dark secrets of the Wild West.
Episode 9
Sun, Jan 5, 202084 mins
The Seven Wonders are the engineering marvels built by great minds of long-lost civilizations, but we're not sure if some even existed; new discoveries and cutting-edge archaeological methods might prove what they looked like and why they disappeared.
Episode 10
Sun, Jan 5, 202042 mins
A strange site called Saqqara is home to Egypt's very first pyramid, and here, experts use cutting-edge tech to reveal why the ancient Egyptians started building pyramids and if the mummified animals found here are evidence of a bizarre religious cult.
Episode 11
Sun, Jan 12, 202042 mins
Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay is home to secrets that only cutting-edge archaeology can reveal, and using the latest science and the newest tech, experts search for hidden evidence to investigate why so many tried and failed to escape America's toughest jail.
Episode 12
Sun, Jan 19, 202042 mins
The Roman Empire built Hadrian's Wall to guard its frontiers at the edge of the world; new discoveries reveal who the Romans were trying to keep out with this 72-mile-long megastructure and what it tells us about the ancient people of Iron Age Britain.
Episode 13
Sun, Jan 26, 202042 mins
Pyramids in the deserts of Sudan are the ruins of a powerful lost civilization that rivaled the pharaohs of ancient Egypt, and using cutting-edge tech and archaeological methods, experts are revealing the secrets behind the mysterious Kingdom of Kush.