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

96 ancient mummies are unearthed in Chile, while a recently discovered tomb in Egypt leads to an astonishing discovery. 

The remains of 10 ancient crocodiles are excavated on the bank of the Nile, while a four-thousand-year-old stone complex is found.

In China's Ordos Desert, archaeologists find jade stones among crumbling rock faces.

Ancient life-size sculptures of camels have been discovered in a huge rock face in Saudi Arabia.

The remains of a Portuguese ship that disappeared in 1533 during a voyage to India may have been found in the Namibian desert.

In Tunisia, the ruins of a legendary lost Roman city may have been found.