The Best Episodes of Unearthed
Every episode of Unearthed ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Unearthed!
Unearthed decodes mysteries and combines scientific investigations with CGI animation to reveal the hidden secrets of iconic structures and monuments from around the globe to discover how they were designed, built, used, and in some cases, lost and rediscovered.
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Unearthed" is "Secrets of the Seven Wonders", rated 8.9/10 from 15 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Secrets of the Seven Wonders" aired on 1/5/2020 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Egypt's Greatest Wonders".
8.9/10 15 votes#1 - Secrets of the Seven Wonders
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 1/5/2020
The Seven Wonders are the engineering marvels built by great minds of long-lost civilizations, but we're not sure if some even existed. New discoveries & cutting-edge archaeological methods might prove what they looked like and why they disappeared.
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8.8/10 14 votes#2 - Egypt's Greatest Wonders
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 7/12/2020
Seven wonders of ancient Egypt are home to mysteries still unsolved thousands of years after their construction, and today, investigators use cutting-edge tech and forensic analysis to reveal new secrets of these colossal engineering marvels.
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8.8/10 7 votes#3 - Nimrud: Secrets Revealed
Season 10 Episode 6 - Aired 12/18/2022
Nearly a decade after the ancient site of Nimrud was destroyed by terrorists, experts return to salvage the wreckage; archaeologists piece together the remaining ruins to reveal the origins and brutal decline of a lost empire.
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8.6/10 7 votes#4 - Tomb of Alexander the Great
Season 11 Episode 3 - Aired 7/30/2023
The magnificent tomb of Alexander the Great mysteriously vanishes and becomes a legend; using CGI, investigators piece together the evidence to reveal where his tomb lies and what it might look like.
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8.5/10 12 votes#5 - Rome's Lost Coliseums
Season 9 Episode 10 - Aired 7/11/2021
The coliseums of Rome were brutal theaters of spectacle and death that helped control the sprawling Roman empire; now, archaeologists uncover the engineering secrets behind these majestic structures to reveal the truth behind the ancient Roman world.
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8.5/10 6 votes#6 - Secrets of Dendera
Season 11 Episode 2 - Aired 7/23/2023
The Dendera Temple is one of the best-preserved temples in all of Egypt; experts decipher its mystifying zodiac images and uncover the ceremonial events that took place at this sacred site, and stunning CGI rebuilds this grand complex in its prime.
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8.4/10 13 votes#7 - Modern Wonders of America
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 7/5/2020
Seven American engineering marvels are among the modern wonders of United States, and now, investigators use hidden records to decode and reveal the mysteries behind these historic American icons.
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8.4/10 12 votes#8 - Seven Wonders of Ancient America
Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 7/19/2020
America before Columbus was home to some of the greatest engineering marvels on the planet; special access to hi-tech archaeological digs reveals the secrets of ancient America's Seven Wonders as experts investigate their mysterious purposes.
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8.4/10 9 votes#9 - Secrets of Hadrian's Villa
Season 10 Episode 4 - Aired 12/4/2022
Experts explore Hadrian's Villa, the largest Roman palace ever constructed.
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8.4/10 7 votes#10 - Secrets of the Lost Sphinxes
Season 11 Episode 5 - Aired 8/13/2023
The Avenue of the Sphinxes has now been unearthed in the biggest excavation in Egyptian history; using cutting-edge CGI, investigators reveal the hidden secrets of the sphinxes.
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8.3/10 20 votes#11 - Leaning Tower of Pisa: The New Mystery
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 12/22/2019
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is one of the world's most iconic buildings, and it's also the site of an 800-year-old mystery; using cutting-edge tech, experts investigate the archaeological evidence to reveal when it might finally fall over.
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8.3/10 11 votes#12 - Seven Wonders of Rome
Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 7/26/2020
Cutting-edge archaeological methods help experts unearth the dark secrets hidden at seven wonders of ancient Rome; what they find challenges everything we know about this once-mighty empire.
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8.3/10 10 votes#13 - Lost World of Sumerian Kings
Season 10 Episode 3 - Aired 11/27/2022
Experts explore the origins of kings in the lost city of Kish, Iraq.
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8.2/10 24 votes#14 - Vesuvius's Secret Victim
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 11/10/2019
When Pompeii was destroyed by an apocalyptic volcano in 79 AD, another Roman town was destroyed, too; experts use cutting-edge tech to investigate the secrets of Vesuvius's second victim, which is one of the most perfectly preserved Roman towns on earth.
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8.2/10 19 votes#15 - Hunt for the First Pyramid
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 1/5/2020
A strange site called Saqqara is home to Egypt's very first pyramid. Here, experts use cutting-edge tech to reveal why the ancient Egyptians started building pyramids and if the mummified animals found here are evidence of a bizarre religious cult.
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8.2/10 16 votes#16 - Egypt's Sunken Treasures
Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 6/14/2020
Egypt's ultimate secrets could be hidden underwater, and a cutting-edge archaeological investigation uses hi-tech methods to scan the ocean floor in search of sunken sphinxes, temples, and shipwrecks.
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8.2/10 19 votes#17 - Rome's Gate to Hell
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 11/22/2020
Experts investigate myths of a secret portal to hell in Hierapolis.
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8.2/10 13 votes#18 - Terror in the Torture Tower
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 12/13/2020
The Tower of London is a centuries-old castle shrouded in a grisly past.
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8.2/10 29 votes#19 - Lost City of Persia
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 5/2/2021
Experts reveal the secrets of the Persian Empire's capital, Persepolis.
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8.2/10 17 votes#20 - Egypt's Island of Secrets
Season 9 Episode 6 - Aired 6/6/2021
Experts investigate an ancient temple monument on an Egyptian island.
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8.1/10 20 votes#21 - Rome's Great Wall
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 1/19/2020
The Roman Empire built Hadrian's Wall to guard its frontiers at the edge of the world; new discoveries reveal who the Romans were trying to keep out with this 72-mile-long megastructure and what it tells us about the ancient people of Iron Age Britain.
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8.1/10 8 votes#22 - Enigma of the Red Pyramid
Season 10 Episode 2 - Aired 11/20/2022
The Red Pyramid at Dahshur is a revolutionary megastructure and the first true pyramid ever constructed in ancient Egypt; experts investigate to reveal the pharaoh who built it and the mystery behind its trailblazing design.
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8.1/10 7 votes#23 - The Lost Empire of Palmyra
Season 11 Episode 1 - Aired 7/16/2023
Palmyra: pearl of the Syrian desert; experts return to the site and use CGI reconstruction to reveal the secrets of Palmyra's ancient engineers.
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8.0/10 26 votes#24 - Secrets at the Palace
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/9/2016
We reveal the centuries-old secrets and mysteries of one of the most remarkable examples of Victorian engineering. Follow the cutting-edge technology that built the Palace of Westminster, and find how it paved the way for the today's skyscrapers.
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8.0/10 29 votes#25 - Nero's Lost Palace
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 7/28/2019
New discoveries reveal the scandals and secrets of Nero and his lost palace, and using cutting-edge technology, experts might confirm if the infamous emperor burned down Rome so he could build this golden wonder.
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