Dead Men's Tales

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This episode of Scientific American Frontiers follows archaeologists as they pore over human and other remains at sites around the world. A skeleton found at Virginia's Jamestown colony reveals the hardships settlers faced. In Texas, the question is whether an outlaw supposedly hanged in 1878 was, in fact, executed. A South African archaeologist unearths 16th-century royalty. And in Egypt the workers who built the pyramids are unearthed.

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55 min 1 sec

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