S01E01 Faith and Power
This episode deals with a mysterious mass death of children in ancient Athens, the Great Fire of Rome and the fanatical destruction of Egyptian temples by Pharaoh Akhenaton. With the help of modern forensics and...
Crime Scene: Antiquity
S01E04: Cases with Grave Consequences
This episode is about crimes that have changed the course of history. It deals with the death on the cross of a Jewish itinerant preacher, the oldest known murder case in human history and the high treason of Arminius, which led to the legendary Varus Battle. Modern forensics and experimental archaeology provide new answers to long forgotten questions: Did Jesus really die on the cross? Who killed Neanderthal Shanidar 3? How did it come about that Arminius defected to the Germanic tribes?
Overview
Nothing lets us look deeper into the dark abyss of a past epoch than the murders and misdeeds committed during it. But many crimes of the past remain unsolved today. The perpetrators were not identified or punished, and evidence hasn’t been presented against them — until now. This documentary series shows how science uses modern forensic methods to solve crimes that happened thousands of years ago.
Episodes
S01E02 Secrets of the Dead
This episode is about a dark conspiracy against the Pharaoh Ramses III, the mysterious multiple killing of a Celtic druid whose two-thousand-year-old body was discovered in a moor near Manchester, and the brutal murder of...
S01E03 Baffling Violence
This episode deals with a sinister massacre in a Swedish fortified castle, the brutal execution of a man from Eisenberg and the mysteriously early death of Tutankhamun. An international team of experts successfully uncovers those...
S01E04 Cases with Grave Consequences
This episode is about crimes that have changed the course of history. It deals with the death on the cross of a Jewish itinerant preacher, the oldest known murder case in human history and the...
S01E05 Conspiracy and Revenge
This episode deals with the murder of the world-famous glacier mummy Ötzi, the conspiracy against the Macedonian King Philip II and the assassination of the later first emperor of China. The search for the perpetrators...
