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Can you really take your secrets to the grave? See how science can reveal the secrets of the dead using forensic botany and anthropology. Oh, and there's a zombie dissection too.
Festival themes
- The Art of Communication
- Behind the Lens
- Culture and Identity
- Curiouser and Curiouser: Art, Architecture and Design
- Discovering York
- Earth, Wind and Fire
- Eoforwic
- The Future of Democracy and Economic Growth
- The Future of Food
- Hidden Histories
- Performance
- Private Lives
- Revealing the Ancient World
- Science Out of the Lab
- Secrets, Discoveries and Medicine
- Secrets and Lies
- The Secrets of the Dead
- Sparks
- Surveillance, Snowden and Security
- The Theory of Everything