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Secrets of the Dead: Season 16

5 episodes Premiered Oct 26, 2016 Updated Oct 2, 2026
Previously on Secrets of the Dead

Season 16 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Secrets of the Dead Season 15.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 16 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 16: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (2): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S16·E1 Mytharc

After Stonehenge

Oct 26, 2016

Researchers working in secret inside a quarry study the charred remains of an English settlement that dates back 3,000 years.

S16·E2 Mytharc

Graveyard of the Giant Beasts

Nov 2, 2016 · 56 min

A mining operation in Cerrejon, Northern Colombia reveals a large cache of fossils dating to ten millions years after the KT extinction of the dinosaurs.

S16·E3 Core

Van Gogh's Ear

Dec 14, 2016

What did Vincent Van Goh really do on the night of December 23, 1888?

S16·E4 Core

Nero's Sunken City

Mar 29, 2017 · 56 min

Follow Archaeologists who map underwater ruins of ancient Rome's version of Las Vegas

S16·E5 Mytharc

Leonardo: The Man Who Saved Science

Apr 5, 2017 · 52 min

An investigation to discover if Leonardo da Vinci came up with all of his credited ideas and inventions, or were they borrowed from ancient scholars and scientists?

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