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Tomb Detectives

Season 1
TV-Y

  • 30m
How do you perform an autopsy on someone who died over two thousand years ago? The past is rife with suspicious deaths, and now, with the use of state-of-the-art scientific techniques, archaeologists can finally determine exactly how and why many ancient victims met their deaths.

6 episodes

Series Premiere

1x01 Severed Skull

Series Premiere

1x01 Severed Skull

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Twenty decapitated skeletons have been unearthed near York in the UK, and a solitary skull has been discovered during excavations in England. Is there a connection between the two finds? A team of archaeologists is on the scene to try to solve the mystery.

1x02 Battlefield of Bones

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Outside a small village in northern France, a routine archaeological dig of an Iron Age site unearths a macabre case: thousands of human bones but no skulls. Were these people ritually killed and displayed, or were they the victims of a huge battle? A team of archaeologists investigates.

1x03 Bog Bodies

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Tollund Man is perhaps the world's most famous bog body. His mummified remains date back more than 2,500 years. Using technology, including x-rays and CAT scans, an archaeologist tries to determine exactly how he died.

1x04 Child Mummies

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Eight thousand years ago in northern Chile, children, babies, and even fetuses were painstakingly mummified after death by their people, the Chinchorro. A team of scientists from the University of Tarapaca hopes to uncover the secrets of these mummified babies.

1x05 Vampire Graves

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Excavations of abandoned cemeteries in Griswold, Connecticut, and in Prague reveal a number of burials showing signs of decapitation and bone rearrangement. Archaeologists investigate, suspecting connections to a folkloric belief in vampires.

1x06 Plague Mummies

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Nearly 200 perfectly preserved mummies have been found in a church crypt in a Hungarian town. One in particular could be the key to curing tuberculosis and is now stored in the Natural History Museum in Budapest.

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