Secrets of the Dead

Season 8, Episode 2

Episode Title: Sinking Atlantis

Air Date: 2008-05-14

Overview:

Five thousand years ago the Minoans, Europe’s first great civilization, flourished on the island of Crete. Yet in their heyday, they mysteriously disappeared. Sinking Atlantis digs deep into the Minoan soil and history, following archaeologists who are finding evidence of a massive tsunami that devastated the Minoans – and may have spawned the myth of Atlantis.