Secrets in the Sand

Discover 10 preserved Byzantine-era crocodiles on the banks of the Nile; untangle the puzzle of the Namib Desert's grass circles; locate the remnants of a lost foreign-ruled city in Egypt and solve the riddle of Peru's Band of Holes.

Investigating an odd phenomenon that makes rocks slide across Death Valley; learning how pieces of jade rewrite Chinese history; examining animal bones that could show an earlier human arrival in the Americas; visiting Earth's oldest stone circle.

Connect the Great Pyramid to an archeological find near the Suez Canal, then unveil the secrets of colossal rock sculptures in Saudi Arabia. Gaze at a mystical geological formation deep in the Sahara and unmask a 37-million-year-old Egyptian enigma.

Travel to Cairo to examine a stunning find under the Pyramid of Unas' watchful eye. Search for a 16th-century Portuguese shipwreck in the Namib Desert, unearth a WW II plane that crashed in the Sahara, and study a fossilized missing link in Taiwan.

Ancient human remains believed to belong to a great hunter are discovered in the Peruvian highlands. In Tunisia, the ruins of a legendary lost Roman city may have finally been found. Strange sounds emanating from sand dunes in the Mongolian desert are investigated. A huge collection of human and animal bones is discovered in a cave in Saudi Arabia.