This special episode uncovers one story of America’s past that never made it into textbooks. Follow...

Did a cataclysmic event plunge humankind into the period known as the early Dark Ages? Scientists no...

Did a cataclysmic event plunge humankind into the period known as the early Dark Ages? Scientists n...

Why did Greenland's Vikings disappear? The Vikings of Greenland left no clues to their sudden and my...

Why did the great airship Hindenburg explode? The disintegration of the Hindenburg in 1937 is one of...

What happened to the peaceful ancient Pueblo civilization of the American southwest? For 1000 years,...

(Disease & Disaster) “The Witches Curse” poses a shocking new idea about the violent convulsions...

A mysterious skeleton buried in a shallow grave beneath a famous ancient monument. Who was he? How l...

The settlers at Jamestown, the first British colony in the New World, were looking for wealth and ad...

During the Anglo-Zulu wars in South Africa, the success of small British regiments against huge numb...

For centuries, visitors to the Church of the Holy Seplulchre in Jerusalem believed that they stood w...

In 1492, Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic in search of gold. But what his men carried back...

Explore the scientific mystery of human genesis through a close investigation of 13 fossils found in...

In 1665, a British tailor opened a flea-infested shipment of fabric from London. In a matter of days...

In the aftermath of the Titanic, Canadian rescue ships recovered 328 bodies and buried dozens in unm...

In 64 AD, Rome was the most magnificent city in the world. Then, in the early hours of July 19, fire...

In March of 1912, a team of seasoned Antarctic explorers perished on their way back from the South P...

In the spring of 1943, Allied forces to begin preparations for a top secret Allied raid. Each aircra...

The Battle of Towton in North Yorkshire, fought during the Wars of the Roses, was reputedly the bloo...

(Modern Mysteries) While remnants of the abandoned structure exist today, jungles have consumed much...

(Disease & Disaster) In 1918, a flu pandemic ripped through the global population with such spee...

In the summer of 2002, a team of textile restorers was invited to Turin to undertake an unprecedente...

In the three years leading up to D-Day, the Allies had assembled an array of weapons and transport v...

(Archaeology) The myth of the Amazons, a tribe of bloodthirsty blond women thundering across arid b...

Days after D-Day, Allied forces joined together for a different kind of mission. Through rare footag...

On October 6, 2004, FBI agents began digging up a Queens swamp in the hopes of finding the remains o...

In 1789, over two hundred female convicts were pulled out of London's prisons and shipped off to Aus...

On the last night of an Atlantic voyage, the Andrea Doria luxury liner was broadsided by the 13,000-...

On September 11, 1978, Bulgarian emigre, writer and broadcast journalist Georgi Markov died. Three d...

A pivotal moment in World War II, one of the most legendary and best documented dogfights in Air For...

The story behind the creation of the King James Bible from mysterious and inaccessible Latin texts t...

On August 24th, A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the city of Herculaneum. This program docum...

This documentary attempts to explain the mystery behind an unusual ancient burial site unearthed in...

A plea is smuggled to a New York reporter from within Western Australia's Fremantle Prison. This let...

A recent archaeological discovery of more than 550 bodies near Mexico City suggests that the Aztecs...

The story of Rudolph Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, two young Slovak Jews who escaped the Auschwitz death...

In the 1970s, female East German athletes came from nowhere to dominate international sport. But beh...

Five thousand years ago the Minoans, Europe’s first great civilization, flourished on the island of...

In 1910, an American doctor named Hawley Crippen was convicted in England of poisoning and dismember...

Edward Teach, alias Blackbeard, was the most notorious pirate of his day. At the height of his rein,...

More than five centuries ago, Michelangelo Buonarroti was the darling of the Catholic Church. The Pa...

A tribe in Borneo protects a shot-down U.S. bomber crew from Japanese occupiers during World War II....

Accounts of the survivors of the indiscriminate terrorist massacres in Mumbai by Islamic Extremests...

During World War 2, Japan developed a super-submarine capable of launching bomber aircraft as a stra...

Find out why Churchill chose to sink the French fleet.

The Battle of Stalingrad, the deadliest single battle ever seen, has been lauded as a shining exampl...

Tanis, Egypt, circa 1939. On the brink of World War II, an excavation team led by French archaeologi...

Three disparate Capetowners reveal a long-forgotten, dramatic slave ship revolt en route from Madaga...

In 2009, archaeologists discovered an underwater graveyard of five Roman shipwrecks off the coast of...

On April 20, 1925, Colonel Percy Fawcett, his elder son Jack Fawcett and Jack’s lifelong friend, Ral...

The life-sized terracotta warriors of China are known throughout the world. This clay army of 8,000...

Beginning in the 1950s, American and Soviet scientists embarked on a perilous race to see who could...

An officer aboard a Soviet submarine refuses to fire a nuclear torpedo during the Cuban Missile Cris...

German POWs reveal inner thoughts about the Third Reich, including military secrets that helped the...

Forensic and scientific analysis help determine how 57 Irish immigrants died less than two months af...

Scientists say some of the 49,000 year-old Neanderthal bones discovered in El Sidrón, Spain, bear si...

New scientific research provides insights into how King Tutankhamen was buried, why his tomb remaine...

Bones of the Buddha is a 2013 television documentary produced by Icon Films and commissioned by WNET...

Fifty years after the tragic shooting of President John F. Kennedy, Secrets of the Dead chronicles m...

New forensic technology helps researchers study Dr. David Livingstone's lost diary, which reveals he...

146 B.C.: Carthage, the proud capital of the vast Carthaginian Empire, is ablaze. Marauding Romans a...

The search for the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient Wo...

Discover a portrait of a younger and more beautiful Mona Lisa that predated the famous Louvre master...

Dick Cavett's Watergate offers a unique opportunity to mark the 40th anniversary of a defining momen...

Scientists test the bones of England's fierce King Richard III.

In November 1997, when the skeletal remains of at least 28 bodies were unearthed in the basement of...

For many, President Lyndon B. Johnson is chiefly remembered for escalating the United States militar...

The Trojan Horse… It was the ultimate sneak attack, bringing a city that would withstood nine years...

Information gathered about aberrant, unorthodox burial practices from medieval times shed some light...

Forensic anthropologists excavate an early American colony of Jamestown, Virginia.

Scientists investigate the 1962 Alcatraz Escape by bank robbers, Frank Morris and Clarence and John...

Dr. Kathleen Martinez searches for the lost tomb of Cleopatra. Following her excavations of a 35-met...

International scientists study and document the ancient royal tombs beneath the ancient Mexican city...

Researchers working in secret inside a quarry study the charred remains of an English settlement tha...

A mining operation in Cerrejon, Northern Colombia reveals a large cache of fossils dating to ten mil...

What did Vincent Van Goh really do on the night of December 23, 1888?

Follow Archaeologists who map underwater ruins of ancient Rome's version of Las Vegas

An investigation to discover if Leonardo da Vinci came up with all of his credited ideas and inventi...

The only one of the seven wonders of the world still standing, the Great Pyramid of Khufu has fascin...

Follow a team of experts as they solve the enduring mystery of exactly where Hannibal and his troops...

On October 4, 2011, construction workers were shocked to uncover human remains in an abandoned lot i...

Take a look at the life of Nero and find out what history may have gotten wrong about him

Uncover new archaeological evidence rewriting our understanding of the Dark Ages in 5th– and 6th-cen...

The discovery of a rare mass grave with the bones of nearly 60 people outside Luxor sends archaeolog...

Follow historian James Holland on his quest to understand how the use of amphetamines affected the c...

When it was published in 1610, Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger) set in motion a scienti...

On December 3, 1944, The Washington Post published an editorial on the atrocities in Auschwitz with...

Follow an investigation into the centuries-long construction of Notre Dame de Paris, uncovering the...

Join a team of archaeologists as they examine one of the most significant Viking graves ever found a...

Join a team of investigators as they search for the identity of the captain of a “mystery ship” that...

Join three groups of treasure hunters, armed with modern technology and newly uncovered clues, as th...

500 years ago, Ferdinand Magellan and his crew set sail to gain control of the global spice trade. W...

Incredible scientific investigations from across the globe are helping piece together the untold sto...

A decade-long archaeological quest reveals that the oldest stones of Stonehenge originally belonged...

A fresh look at the science and conditions surrounding the Hindenburg explosion reveals ten particul...

In 1613, feudal lord Date Masamune sent a Japanese diplomatic mission to Europe to negotiate with th...

Father Marius Zerafa, director of museums in Malta, risks his life to recover a Caravaggio masterpie...

Charles, Ninth Earl Spencer — best-selling author and brother to Diana, Princess of Wales — may be s...

An ornate ceremonial chariot was recently discovered in the ruins of Pompeii, offering insights into...

What if climate change and pandemics were the real causes of the decline of the Roman Empire? Scient...

The first modern translation of Egyptian hieroglyphics happened 200 years ago. How was the ancient c...

Recent discoveries, including funerary urns with highly decorative patterns, and technological advan...

Uncover the sunken remains of a 4th-century basilica in Turkey. Submerged beneath the waters of Lake...

Discover the world of dinosaur collecting, a controversial hobby with a booming market. Hear perspec...

Find out about the race to build Paris’ most famous landmark when two men vied to be the first to bu...

Uncover what happens when archaeologists study a skeleton found with an iron nail through its heel b...

Find out if one of history’s greatest cold cases—the imprisonment of two princes in the Tower of Lon...

A moving story of a people reclaiming their cultural heritage after an occupying force tried to eras...

Maria Anna Mozart was a musical prodigy just like her younger brother Wolfgang. Although the childre...

Making headlines around the world, Brent Seales and his team of computer scientists set out on a mis...

Originally a supply depot for Union forces in Kentucky, Camp Nelson became the site where 10,000 Bla...

In 2022, a terrifying discovery: a female skeleton dating from 1650, buried with a sickle across her...

Angkor was the capital of the Khmer empire, which controlled much of the region between the 9th and...

The discovery of gold and silver artifacts in Laos, dating to the early days of the Khmer Empire, le...

Historian Jonathan Petropoulos investigates the life of former Nazi art dealer Bruno Lohse, who beca...

Historian Jonathan Petropoulos investigates the life of former Nazi art dealer Bruno Lohse, who beca...