Secrets in the Sand

See what a chained skeleton beneath a Jerusalem church says about early Christianity, then explore an Egyptian cliffside temple devoted to a lion-headed goddess. Study strange Jordanian face sculptures and fossilized ice age footprints in New Mexico.

Look inside the lost tomb of King Thutmose II and get new clues about Egypt's pharaohs; dust off stone hunting structures in Saudi Arabia; visit a 1,200-year-old mosque buried in the Negev Desert and inspect a 30-million-year-old predator skull.

Scan the skeleton of a drowned Stone Age fisherman in Chile and rediscover a vanished golden age in Egypt's lost city of Aten; ancient Chinese mummies reignite a cultural debate; discover a massive biblical-era moat in Jerusalem.

Inspect a Mongolian mass grave and learn the fate of a platoon of soldiers, then investigate a 5,000-year-old tavern in Iraq; examine an Egyptian scarab that's far from home and ancient tools that show where desert migration routes once lay.