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Experts investigate mysterious relics that have been revered by cultures for millennia, considering if these sacred items truly hold divine or otherworldly power

Experts investigate the similarities in burial tombs from distant cultures, and question whether aliens could have influenced their complicated designs

The Second World War Battle of Leyte Gulf, which saw three days of ingenious strategy and white-knuckle combat between warships, aircraft and kamikazes

Stories of espionage at sea, including deadly U-boat cat-and-mouse games, the sinking of the Lusitania, a gun-smuggling private yacht and liners-turned-troopships

Detailing how an elite group of British paratroopers managed to launch a midnight raid in order to capture Hitler's unusual radar equipment

Hugh Dennis and the team solve a 17th-century mystery in King's Lynn, as they hunt for enormous defensive earthworks that surrounded the Norfolk town during the English Civil War

The team solves a medieval mystery in Coventry, as they search for a monastic grange known as Biggin Hall, which provided produce for the nearby monks at St Mary's Priory.

Dan Jones explores the history of the Welsh capital's landmark, Cardiff Castle, and discovers more about its various incarnations over the centuries

Experts investigate mysterious relics that have been revered by cultures for millennia, considering if these sacred items truly hold divine or otherworldly power

Experts investigate the similarities in burial tombs from distant cultures, and question whether aliens could have influenced their complicated designs

Scientists and historians join forces to investigate whether colossal volcanoes toppled an ancient dynasty, and reveal the true face of an ancient mummy

Merenptah, the 13th son of Ramses II pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. Merenptah assumed authority after his father's long reign, when all his older brothers had died

On the outskirts of Cairo, a forklift operator uncovered the colossal stone head of a pharaoh. The massive statue represented a ruler lost to history

With unimaginable wealth and power, Cleopatra was one of the most iconic figures of the ancient world. This documentary examines the myths and mystery associated with her

With a 4,500-year-old diary to hand and a new approach, a team sets out to solve one of the ancient world's great mysteries - how was the Great Pyramid built?

At Mexico City's Templo Mayor, archaeologists uncover a 15th-century tower of 600 skulls, revealing new insights into Aztec sacrifice and ritual

As the bloody civil wars rage on, Margaret manages to keep hold of her lands and her life under Yorkist rule, while Warwick leads a rebellion against Edward

Experts investigate mysterious relics that have been revered by cultures for millennia, considering if these sacred items truly hold divine or otherworldly power

Investigating new interpretations of ancient texts indicating that Satan may have been an extraterrestrial

The twisted origin stories of some of history's most diabolically creative, and brutal, torture devices - from the 'Iron Maiden' to the pear of anguish

Drawing a line to the present, the atrocities of the SS are beyond all doubt, yet, there is a cult surrounding 'old comrades' today

A look at America's Cold War codebreakers charged with unravelling a seemingly uncrackable Soviet code and the uncovering of the Manhattan Project

A case in which a security officer was knocked unconscious by an unearthly presence at a nuclear launch site in South Dakota. On awakening, he had travelled miles from the site

Car builder Ian Roussel is given another opportunity to take a far from typical custom job to its absolute limit