Nineveh was once the world’s greatest city. The Bible describes it as a wicked city of sinners, from which Jonah flees and is swallowed by a whale. This season, archaeologists in Iraq and Israel uncover never-before-seen stone reliefs and make a shocking discovery inside Nineveh’s city gate: the skeletons of two teenagers brutally killed in battle. Did the city deserve its fearsome reputation?

Noah and the Great Flood is one of the Bible’s best-known tales. Now, investigators seek to unravel the story’s origins, which may predate the Old Testament. They explore some of the earliest cities in Mesopotamia, use the latest science to examine past climates, decipher clay tablets, and put an ancient blueprint of the Ark to the test. Immersive CGI brings this long-lost story to life.

The story of Exodus is one of the great biblical tales, but why does ancient Egypt play such a central role? We follow a new season of excavations to find answers. Teams brush away layers of earth to reveal a magnificent lost palace and decipher reliefs from the temple of one of Egypt’s greatest pharaohs. New discoveries shed light on the period in which this biblical story was set.

The Bible’s famous Tower of Babel, so tall it reached the heavens, exceeded all modern engineering wonders. We follow a season of excavations to discover if such a tower ever existed. Teams dig deep to reveal magnificent ancient monuments across Iraq and take to the skies to search Babylon for answers. New discoveries and immersive CGI shed light on the world in which this Bible story was written.

King Solomon is one of the most famous names in the Bible—known for being wise and wealthy beyond imagination. But there is little evidence of his reign, and the age in which he lived remains a mystery. Now, archaeologists are excavating neighboring ancient kingdoms to make groundbreaking new discoveries about the long-lost world of this legendary King. Immersive CGI brings his story to life.

King Herod is reviled as one of the most evil characters in the Bible, responsible for the horrific “massacre of the innocents” in his efforts to kill the infant Jesus Christ. But later historians coin him “Herod the Great.” Now, immersive CGI and new archaeological discoveries—on land and deep underwater—reveal the truth about this Biblical villiain.