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Secrets in the Sand
Secrets in the Sand

Secrets in the Sand

—Experts uncover four global stories of extraordinary curiosities that were once concealed in the deserts of the planet.
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Season 25 of 8 Episodes

  • Examine a tiny skeleton in Chile that set off a firestorm of alien speculation; explore a forgotten Silk Road settlement; uncover evidence of a mass sacrifice in northern Peru and visit a multi-faceted military site from the age of the pharaohs.

  • Look inside the lost tomb of King Thutmose II and get new clues about Egypt's pharaohs; dust off stone hunting structures in Saudi Arabia; visit a 1,200-year-old mosque buried in the Negev Desert and inspect a 30-million-year-old predator skull.

  • Inspect a Mongolian mass grave and learn the fate of a platoon of soldiers, then investigate a 5,000-year-old tavern in Iraq; examine an Egyptian scarab that's far from home and ancient tools that show where desert migration routes once lay.

  • Ponder the fate of a mummy buried with an anguished look on its face; learn the secret to Sumerian power in a buried Iraqi palace; visit a lost oasis that may rewrite Arabian history; travel New Mexican roads that align with the heavens.

  • Dig up a mysterious WW II bomber in the Libyan desert, then see why the carved pillars in a Turkish temple may be the world's oldest calendar; open a secret filled shrine in Jerusalem and unearth broken Iraqi bowls that have deep political meaning.

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7 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

    Screaming Mummy and Chaco Canyon Highway
    Lady Be Good Wreck
    Drowned Stone Age Fisherman
    Forgotten Mongol Soldiers and an Ancient Iraqi Tavern
    The Atacama "Alien" Skeleton
    King Thutmose II Tomb & Secret Saudi Gates
  • Screaming Mummy and Chaco Canyon Highway

    Ponder the fate of a mummy buried with an anguished look on its face; learn the secret to Sumerian power in a buried Iraqi palace; visit a lost oasis that may rewrite Arabian history; travel New Mexican roads that align with the heavens.
    Upcoming
  • Lady Be Good Wreck

    Dig up a mysterious WW II bomber in the Libyan desert, then see why the carved pillars in a Turkish temple may be the world's oldest calendar; open a secret filled shrine in Jerusalem and unearth broken Iraqi bowls that have deep political meaning.
    Upcoming

  • Experts uncover four global stories of extraordinary curiosities that were once concealed in the deserts of the planet.
    Upcoming
  • Drowned Stone Age Fisherman

    Scan the skeleton of a drowned Stone Age fisherman in Chile and rediscover a vanished golden age in Egypt's lost city of Aten; ancient Chinese mummies reignite a cultural debate; discover a massive biblical-era moat in Jerusalem.
    Upcoming
  • Forgotten Mongol Soldiers and an Ancient Iraqi Tavern

    Inspect a Mongolian mass grave and learn the fate of a platoon of soldiers, then investigate a 5,000-year-old tavern in Iraq; examine an Egyptian scarab that's far from home and ancient tools that show where desert migration routes once lay.
    Upcoming
  • The Atacama "Alien" Skeleton

    Examine a tiny skeleton in Chile that set off a firestorm of alien speculation; explore a forgotten Silk Road settlement; uncover evidence of a mass sacrifice in northern Peru and visit a multi-faceted military site from the age of the pharaohs.
    Upcoming
Secrets in the Sand

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Experts uncover four global stories of extraordinary curiosities that were once concealed in the deserts of the planet.

Starring

Jeff Teravainen, Anthony Cantor, Yara Haridy, Alex Mifflin

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