Dr. Peter Der Manuelian, Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology; Director of the Harvard Semitic Museum, and Mehdi Tayoubi, President and Co-Founder of the Heritage Innovation Preservation Institute and ScanPyramids ...

Historian Michael Francis’s journey through the documents at Archivo General de Indias By Michael Francis December 21, 2017 It is still dark when Spain’s Archivo General de Indias opens its doors in late December. ...

By Chuck Meide Director, St. Augustine Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program Nearly 50 years before Jamestown, St. Augustine was founded in 1565. Secrets of Spanish Florida reveals the forgotten history behind America’s ...

Last week, Olympic officials announced that Russia will be banned from the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The announcement came after a lengthy investigation into Russia’s state-sponsored doping ...

Following the publication of Nature‘s article acknowledging the greatest discovery in Egypt’s Khufu pyramid for more than 1,000 years, THIRTEEN’s Secrets of the Dead: Scanning the Pyramids will unveil the adventure ...

In celebration of Halloween, we're re-releasing the most famous mummies (and mysteriously missing mummies) in history from Secrets of the Dead for all to see. Watch between October 27 and November 5, when they return ...

By Dominic Smee Interesting fact. The American version of the documentary produced for Channel 4 is actually the “director’s cut” and a whole ten minutes longer, despite having nearly 100 hours of footage on the ...

By Bernadette Murphy Since I made the TV program “Van Gogh’s Ear” for SECRETS OF THE DEAD, my life has changed pretty much completely. I’ve given public talks at many museums and institutions—the ...

As a series that fuses science and history together, Secrets of the Dead’s goal is to share stories of discovery that have used science to unravel the past. Science provides a unique lens through which to view history ...

A certain people in medieval Yorkshire were so afraid of the dead that they chopped, smashed and burned their skeletons to make sure they stayed in their graves.