Ancient Bodies: Secrets Revealed
2 Seasons • 2023 14+
Through ancient tales, modern science, and the current guardians of the bodies, Ancient Bodies: Secrets Revealed pieces together an understanding of who these people were and how they died and remained preserved for us to learn from today.
S2.E1 - Prince Pentawere
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Jul 14 @ 1:00AM
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A young boy accidentally uncovers an Egyptian Royal cache of mummies and treasure that will deepen our understanding of ancient Egypt. Among the sarcophagi, hides a mystery. An unidentified mummy frozen in a death scream, hastily mummified.
S2.E2 - Elling Woman
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Jul 14 @ 1:45AM
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Danish peat farmers discover what they believe to be a dead animal. No one realizes this is actually the body of a woman, found only a few meters away from another mummified man, could the two bodies be related?
S2.E3 - Delemont Bodies
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Jul 21 @ 1:00AM
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Male and female mummies languish in the attic of a Swiss school for more than a century. Their origins are uncovered by modern-day forensics, leading investigators across an ocean to determine how the bodies arrived in Europe.
S2.E4 - Huldremose Woman
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Jul 28 @ 1:00AM
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Discovered in a Danish bog and now kept at the National Museum of Denmark, the Huldremose Woman is defined as much by what she wore as how she died. Wrapped in textiles from many regions, her clothing suggests a life more complex than expected.
S2.E5 - Seqenenre Tao II
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Aug 4 @ 1:00AM
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When the mummy of Pharaoh Seqenenre Tao II was pulled from a hidden royal cache in 1881, the wounds covering his skull sparked a mystery that would take over a century to solve.
S2.E6 - Rendswuhren Man
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Aug 11 @ 1:00AM
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The discovery of Rendswuhren Man in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany in 1871 sends shockwaves through the archaeological world. Preserved for centuries in the peat, his body is eerily intact, but the circumstances of his death are anything but clear.
S2.E7 - The Qilakitsoq Eight
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Aug 18 @ 1:00AM
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In the frozen landscape of Greenland, a chance discovery reveals eight bodies, perfectly preserved, as if time simply stopped. Their faces, their clothing, even their final positions offer unsettling clues to a shared fate.
S2.E8 - Grauballe Man
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Aug 25 @ 1:00AM
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From a peat bog near Aarhus, Denmark a man emerges, his face intact, his death seemingly anything but peaceful. Is this the body of a modern man or ancient? Was he a human sacrifice, a criminal, or the victim of an accidental death.