A seemingly African skeleton, unearthed near a medieval English monastery, pushes forensics expert Professor Sue Black and her team at the Centre for Anatomy and Human ID at the University of Dundee to their limits. Bone analysis offers clues about the true origins of the mysterious skeleton and facial reconstruction painstakingly reveals his face, which hasn't been seen for centuries.

This time the 'History Cold Case' team head back into a dark corner of the 19th Century, to a time when corpses were turned into trophies and children were sold by the inch. Their subject: the bizarre mummified body of a child. Can they give our boy back a home, a face, a name?

The team of experts open up the historical cold case of a mysterious skeleton discovered by accident in a series of forgotten rooms in Scotland's Stirling Castle. The forensic trail leads to a unique and extraordinary 600 year old document and the team is shocked to discover the skeleton's likely identity.

A skeleton unearthed in an archaeological dig in the historic borough of Southwark in London sparks a new cold case when it is found to be covered with disfiguring scars - this investigation leads the cold case team into the seediest corners of early Victorian Britain. The latest facial reconstruction techniques bring the identity of one of history's missing persons back into chilling view.

When the remains of seventeen people thought to date from the early 1200s were discovered recently in a dry well shaft in Norwich city centre, the local community were keen for answers about who these people were and what happened to them. This becomes a case of suspected medieval murder but the final reveal of the identity of these people is an even bigger shock to all involved.

For decades experts have remained baffled by a jumble of human bones discovered in a unique series of caves on the North York Moors, known as the 'Windy Pits'. One discovery in particular stands out - a tangle of bones that might belong to a family from two thousand years ago. The trail to uncover answers about what happened to these people takes us into a dark world of ritual sacrifice and right back to the limits of British recorded history.