Secrets of the Dead

  • Premiered: May 2000
  • Episodes: 118
  • Followers: 27
  • Running
  • PBS
  • Tuesday at 20
  • Documentary History Mystery War

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Season 1
1x1
Catastrophe! Part 1: The Day the Sun Went Out
Episode overview
Air date
May 15, 2000
An exploration of the theory of David Keys that a "catastrophe" in the mid sixth century caused major changes in the world's weather for the next several years.
1x2
Catastrophe! Part 2: How the World Changed
Episode overview
Air date
May 15, 2000
Could a violent volcanic eruption of Krakatoa be responsible for the climatic cataclysm that hit Earth in 535 A.D., causing two years of darkness, famine, drought and disease, and did this lead to emergence of new nations and religions?
1x3
The Lost Vikings
Episode overview
Air date
May 16, 2000
This program trys to discover why a colony of Vikings, after nearly four hundred years of settlement, would disappear suddenly from the coast of Greenland.
1x5
Cannibalism in the Canyon
Episode overview
Air date
May 17, 2000
The Anasazi people of the American Southwest were once thought to be a model society, but now it seems they may have practiced ritual cannibalism. This program explores the evidence for how they lived and why they disappeared.
1x4
What Happened to the Hindenburg
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 15, 2000
An examination of what really caused the explosion of the Hindenburg zeppelin.
1x6 Season finale
What Sank the Mary Rose?
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Air date
Dec 18, 2015
A team of experts from the fields of shipbuilding, science, history and archaeology gather to try and pin down why Henry VIII's flagship, The Mary Rose, capsized and sank without warning in 1545

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