Secret History

  • Premiered: Nov 1991
  • Episodes: 127
  • Followers: 4
  • Ended
  • Channel 4
  • Unknown
  • Documentary History

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Season 13
13x1
Tutankhamun: The Mystery of the Burnt Mummy
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 10, 2013
Nearly a century after Howard Carter's momentous discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, Egyptologist Dr Chris Naunton returns to Carter's vast excavation files to uncover clues that point to a mysterious burning of the Boy King's mummy.
13x2
Queen Victoria and the Crippled Kaiser
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 17, 2013
Queen Victoria's grandson, the future Kaiser Wilhelm II, was born with a permanently paralysed arm: a disability considered shameful at the time.
13x3
Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden
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Air date
Nov 24, 2013
The Hanging Garden of Babylon is the only one of the seven wonders of the ancient world for which no archaeological evidence has ever been found. Centuries of digging have turned up .. show full overview
13x4
New Secrets of the Terracotta Warriors
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Air date
Dec 08, 2013
The discovery of China's Terracotta Army in 1974 revealed just a fraction of this extraordinary treasure. This documentary has exclusive access to the latest discoveries.
13x5
The Dambusters' Great Escape
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Air date
Mar 30, 2014
The extraordinary story of how two RAF squadrons sank Germany's most dangerous Second World War battleship, after 34 failed attempts
13x6 Season finale
Return of the Black Death
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Air date
Apr 06, 2014
Bubonic plague is still around today, but kills in small numbers. Why did it kill so many people in 1348? The discovery of 25 medieval skeletons in London provides new answers.

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