Secrets dans le sable

From the rediscovery of a lost Silk Road city to mass child sacrifices in Peru, new archaeological finds reveal how human resilience, belief and conflict shaped life in the world's harshest deserts.

The Million Mummy Necropolis is an enormous cemetery that is believed to contain over one million burials of ordinary Egyptian citizens that were naturally mummified by the hot and dry desert sands over 1,500 years ago. From that vast cemetery to ancient bones on a Welsh beach, this episode examines how ancient burial sites illuminate forgotten lives and long-lost cultural shifts.

How, from a forgotten Egyptian temple carved into desert cliffs to one of the world's oldest ritual hunting sites in Jordan, recent discoveries are redefining spiritual, cultural and migration histories across continents and millennia