Secrets of the Dead

In 1942, the Japanese army forced 200,000 Allied soldiers to build a railway in Burma; 21 months later a new weapon destroyed its tracks.

In 1918, a flu pandemic ripped through the global population with such speed and virulence that by the end of the following year an estimated 40 million people would be dead — four times the number of victims eventually claimed by the First World War.

Could the Shroud of Turin actually be stained with the blood of Jesus Christ? Experts debate the origin of a prized religious relic.

For two years they planned the now-famous amphibious operation. On June 6, 1944, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy.

View the excavation of a warrior priestess grave and use forensic science to identify the modern descendants of these powerful women.