The Ten Plagues of Egypt, as detailed in the Bible's Book of Exodus, features rivers of blood, swarms of locusts, and days of darkness. Now, new discoveries suggest these supernatural events were real natural phenomena, all caused by one catastrophic disaster: a volcanic eruption in Santorini, Greece. Follow a team of archaeologists and scientists to the ruins of an ancient Egyptian temple and the crater of a colossal volcano as they unlock secrets of biblical proportions.

Hierakonpolis, one of the ancient world's forgotten cities, was only of passing interest to most archaeologists. That changed with the discovery of a prehistoric cemetery containing Egypt's first kings and the remains of wild and exotic animals. Follow scientists as they unlock the secrets of this 6,000-year-old cemetery, secrets that are redefining everything scholars thought they knew about Egypt in the time before the pharaohs.