Secrets of the Dead - Season 12

Secrets of the Dead - Season 12

Season 12

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DatesOct 23, 2012 - Jul 23, 2013
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Episodes

The Man Who Saved the World
Season 12Episode 160 min

The Man Who Saved the World

An officer aboard a Soviet submarine refuses to fire a nuclear torpedo during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
Oct 23, 2012
Bugging Hitler's Soldiers
Season 12Episode 260 min

Bugging Hitler's Soldiers

German POWs reveal inner thoughts about the Third Reich, including military secrets that helped the Allies win World War II.
May 1, 2013
Death on the Railroad
Season 12Episode 360 min

Death on the Railroad

Forensic and scientific analysis help determine how 57 Irish immigrants died less than two months after arriving in Pennsylvania to work on the railroad.
May 8, 2013
Caveman Cold Case
Season 12Episode 460 min

Caveman Cold Case

Scientists say some of the 49,000 year-old Neanderthal bones discovered in El Sidrón, Spain, bear signs of cannibalism.
May 15, 2013
Ultimate Tut
Season 12Episode 5120 min

Ultimate Tut

In 1922, in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter made the greatest archaeological find in history: the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb and its golden treasures worth nearly a billion dollars. Carter's find made Tutankhamun the most famous pharaoh in ancient Egyptian history. But the real story of King Tut has become shrouded in myth. New scientific research provides insights into how King Tutankhamun was buried, why his tomb remained intact, and how he died.

Jul 10, 2013
Bones of the Buddha
Season 12Episode 660 min

Bones of the Buddha

Bones of the Buddha is a 2013 television documentary produced by Icon Films and commissioned by WNET/THIRTEEN and ARTE France for the National Geographic Channels. It concerns a controversial Buddhist reliquary from the Piprahwa Stupa in Uttar Pradesh, India. It was released in May, 2013, and was broadcast in July 2013 in the US on PBS as part of the Secrets of the Dead series.
Jul 23, 2013

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