Tom Detectives investigates some of history's gruesome deaths, unraveling ancient mysteries that have defied explanation for hundreds, even thousands, of years. In each episode of this six-part series, archaeological teams travel to remote and exotic locales around the globe, using state-of-the-art scientific techniques on their quest to reveal how and why the victims met their ends.
Severed Skull examines the mystery surrounding 20 decapitated skulls discovered in a Roman cemetery in the U.K.
Battlefield of Bones unravels the ghoulish tale of thousands of human bones (but no skulls) unearthed in France.
Bog Bodies visits northern Europe where sinister mummified human bodies dating from 2,000 years ago have been discovered in a bog. Were they part of a sacrificial rite?
Child Mummies looks at the world's oldest mummified remains found in Chile. Most of them were young children, babies and fetuses. How and why did they die?
Vampire Graves scrutinizes an abandoned 1800s cemetery in Connecticut, possibly connected to a folkloric belief in the undead.
Plague Mummies examines nearly 200 perfectly preserved mummies in a church crypt in Hungary and 418 Nubian mummies in Sudan.
Run time: 158 min
