Secrets in the Sand

Scan the skeleton of a drowned Stone Age fisherman in Chile and rediscover a vanished golden age in Egypt's lost city of Aten; ancient Chinese mummies reignite a cultural debate; discover a massive biblical-era moat in Jerusalem.

Inspect a Mongolian mass grave and learn the fate of a platoon of soldiers, then investigate a 5,000-year-old tavern in Iraq; examine an Egyptian scarab that's far from home and ancient tools that show where desert migration routes once lay.

Look inside the lost tomb of King Thutmose II and get new clues about Egypt's pharaohs; dust off stone hunting structures in Saudi Arabia; visit a 1,200-year-old mosque buried in the Negev Desert and inspect a 30-million-year-old predator skull.

Dig up a mysterious WW II bomber in the Libyan desert, then see why the carved pillars in a Turkish temple may be the world's oldest calendar; open a secret filled shrine in Jerusalem and unearth broken Iraqi bowls that have deep political meaning.

Examine a tiny skeleton in Chile that set off a firestorm of alien speculation; explore a forgotten Silk Road settlement; uncover evidence of a mass sacrifice in northern Peru and visit a multi-faceted military site from the age of the pharaohs.