THIRTEEN's SECRETS OF THE DEAD to Launch #SummerofSecrets Social Campaign

This summer, THIRTEEN is unveiling a new "secret" every week with the launch of #SummerofSecrets, a social campaign to promote awareness and engagement for SECRETS OF THE DEAD. Part detective story, part true-life drama, the series, currently in its 16th season, continues its unique brand of archaeological sleuthing and employing advances in investigative techniques, forensic Science and historical scholarship to offer new evidence about forgotten mysteries.

Each week on Tuesday through September 19, SECRETS of the Dead's social accounts (Facebook and Twitter), will promote a new "secret" with a graphic from the series' vast archive. Last week Amazon Warrior Women (June 20), tying into the recent box office smash hit Wonder Woman, kicked off the campaign.

This week discover "secrets" about The Lost Gardens of BABYLON (June 27), one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

In the weeks ahead, "secrets" to be featured include:

Escape from Auschwitz: The Vrba-Wetzler Report (July 4), the story of Auschwitz prisoners Rudolph Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, who escaped Hitler's concentration camp in order to expose the horrors of the Nazi genocide and stop THE KILLING factories;

Death at Jamestown (July 11), presents the theory of maverick pathologist, Frank
Hancock, who claims that the deaths at the Jamestown COLONY during the winter of 1609-1610 - now called "the starving time" - had nothing to do with starvation, but were the result of arsenic poisoning;

Episode title: TBA (July 18);

The Great Fire of ROME (July 25), history blames Nero, but twenty centuries later, archaeologists, historians, and contemporary fire investigators try to pinpoint the cause of the fire that left 10 out of Rome's 14 districts in ruin.

More "secrets" will be shared with you throughout the summer. Follow along for more fun facts @SecretsPBS and #SecretsDeadPBS.

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