NEW SEASON OF DISCOVERIES!

WEDNESDAYS AT 9:00PM

Discover the mysterious treasure of Angkor Wat, learn what a previously unreadable 2,000-year-old scroll has to say, learn the untold story of Mozart’s sister, and memorialize fallen Black Civil War soldiers in all-new Secrets of the Dead episodes beginning this month.

The new season kicks off on Oct. 2 with Returning to Babylon, which follows a team of archaeologists searching for Assyrian artifacts that survived the Isis occupation of Mosul. On Oct. 9, learn the story of Maria Anna Mozart, older sister to Wolfgang and a musical prodigy in her own right. Could she have helped write some of her famous brother’s earliest music? The Herculaneum Scrolls on Oct. 16, a team of computer scientists set out on a mission to read the 2,000-year-old carbonized scrolls found in the remains of a villa in Herculaneum. Can particle physics and AI finally reveal what the scrolls say? The Civil War’s Lost Massacre on Oct. 23 follows the search for the remains of formerly enslaved Black Union soldiers brutally murdered after the Civil War. Learn about Camp Nelson, KY, the military base where these soldiers and thousands got their freedom papers. And just in time for Halloween, Field of Vampires on Oct. 30 explores the discovery of a female skeleton dating from 1650, buried with a sickle across her neck and giant padlock on her toe—double protection to keep her from rising from the dead. All the evidence points to her being buried as a vampire.

Join us for all these fabulous stories this month on Secrets of the Dead! And in November look for the two-part special The Lost Treasures of Angkor Wat.