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This July, stream these Secrets episodes and uncover mysteries in four European stops. Can’t catch a flight this summer? Join Secrets of the Dead for a European Tour featuring some of our favorite episodes now streaming on pbs.org/secrets. This month, the Secrets European Tour highlights ...

Baiae... An escape for ancient Rome’s powerful elite, the Las Vegas of its day. Now, archaeologists are mapping underwater ruins and piecing together what life was like in this playground for the rich.

More than 500 ago, Michelangelo Buonarroti was the darling of the Catholic Church, commissioned to create many of its most important pieces. Historians have long wondered about the mysterious circumstances of his death — and now, art historian Antonio Forcellino believes he has pieced together ...

Read the production biographies for Lost Ships of Rome

See stills and images of individuals featured in Secrets of the Dead: Lost Ships of Rome

In 2009 a team of marine archeologists carrying out a sonar survey of the seabed around the remote Italian island of Ventotene made an astonishing discovery.