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Season 52 · Episode 17
Ancient Desert Death Trap
0.053mOctober 22, 2025
Archaeologists investigate dozens of strange Stone Age megastructures in the Arabian desert. They're so big that their true form is visible only from the air, yet these giant structures were built by a mysterious people 9000 years ago.
Episodes
- Episode 1What Are UFOs?
- Episode 2Extreme Airport Engineering
- Episode 3Dino Birds
- Episode 4Egypt's Tombs of Amun
- Episode 5Pompeii's Secret Underworld
- Episode 6Baltimore Bridge Collapse
- Episode 7Revolutionary War Weapons
- Episode 8Secrets of the Forest
- Episode 9Critical Condition: Health In Black America
- Episode 10Ultimate Crash Test: Countdown
- Episode 11Ultimate Crash Test: Impact
- Episode 12Human: Origins
- Episode 13Human: Journeys
- Episode 14Human: Neanderthal Encounters
- Episode 15Human: Into the Americas
- Episode 16Human: Building Empires
- Episode 17Ancient Desert Death Trap
- Episode 18Superfloods
- Episode 19Operation Space Station: High-Risk Build
- Episode 20Operation Space Station: Science and Survival