Tomb Detectives

Twenty decapitated skeletons have been unearthed near York in the UK, and a solitary skull has been discovered during excavations in England. Is there a connection between the two finds? A team of archaeologists is on the scene to try to solve the mystery.

Outside a small village in northern France, a routine archaeological dig of an Iron Age site unearths a macabre case: thousands of human bones but no skulls. Were these people ritually killed and displayed, or were they the victims of a huge battle? A team of archaeologists investigates.

Tollund Man is perhaps the world's most famous bog body. His mummified remains date back more than 2,500 years. Using technology, including x-rays and CAT scans, an archaeologist tries to determine exactly how he died.

Eight thousand years ago in northern Chile, children, babies, and even fetuses were painstakingly mummified after death by their people, the Chinchorro. A team of scientists from the University of Tarapaca hopes to uncover the secrets of these mummified babies.

Excavations of abandoned cemeteries in Griswold, Connecticut, and in Prague reveal a number of burials showing signs of decapitation and bone rearrangement. Archaeologists investigate, suspecting connections to a folkloric belief in vampires.

Nearly 200 perfectly preserved mummies have been found in a church crypt in a Hungarian town. One in particular could be the key to curing tuberculosis and is now stored in the Natural History Museum in Budapest.