Five hundred years before the Inca, a remarkable band of warriors called the Chachapoya built the greatest stone monument in the Americas.
Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley sinks with all aboard after torpedoing a Union warship.
Hunter Ellis explores how Central America's Olmecs moved mountains to make giant stone heads from single basalt boulders.
When Romans looted Jerusalem's Temple nearly 2,000 years ago, priceless golden artifacts became lost.
The search for golden artifacts that Romans looted from Jerusalem's Temple ranges from Israel to Italy, North Africa and Turkey.
Exploring legends behind the desert city of Timbuktu and the source of its power, wealth and mystery.
A stone temple complex lies deep in the Cambodian jungle.
Testing Neanderthal weapons; exploring underwater caves.
The search for the true Atlantis; host Josh Bernstein.
Genghis Khan and his Mongol Horde create the largest land empire in recorded history in less than seventy years.
The mysterious death of King Tut.
Pharaoh Ramesses II; host Josh Bernstein.
Discovering the true purpose of Machu Picchu; host Josh Bernstein.
Ancient Egyptians prepare their dead for the afterlife; host Josh Bernstein.
Host Josh Bernstein tours the ancient city of Tiwanaku from the air and the ground.
Host Josh Bernstein examines an ancient basalt slab inscribed with David's name, recreates his famous fight with Goliath and descends through a waterway into Jerusalem.
Archaeologists discover a copper scroll which scholars believe represents a detailed list of hiding places where the priests of Jerusalem's Second Temple stored their most precious artifacts.
Host Josh Bernstein travels to Mexico City to investigate and use forensic science to examine the bones of sacrificial rituals.
The Chavin rule ancient Peru by a cult promoting fertility and abundant harvests.
In pre-Columbian times, American Indians live in earthen pyramids along the Mississippi.
Host Josh Bernstein investigates the origins of Stonehenge.
Josh Bernstein investigates the English settlers at Roanoke Island.
The obsidian mines, prehistoric tools and murals of the city of Teotihuacan; host Josh Bernstein.
Host Josh Bernstein investigates the mystery and legacy of the Queen of Sheba.
Homer's "Iliad" may be fact or fiction.
Josh Bernstein searches for evidence behind the controversial theory laid out in Dan Brown's book "The Da Vinci Code."
Josh Bernstein joins paleontologists on a search to determine whether the ground sloth could have lived into the era of human habitation.
Host Josh Bernstein travels to the Near East in search of the remains of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Host Josh Bernstein treks through the Amazon rain forest in search of the legendary Lost City of Z.
The great Egyptian Pyramids of Giza inspire awe, wonder and speculation.
Queen Nefertiti, the most powerful woman in Egypt, vanishes without a trace.
Volcano Vesuvius buries Roman towns under layers of ash and pumice.
Adventurers and archaeologists search for the Ark of the Covenant for centuries.
Vacationing hikers stumble across the perfectly preserved body of a 5,000-year-old man.
Explorers search for the gold mines of biblical King Solomon.
The ancient Maya of Central America built thousands of pyramids; exploring the meaning of Mayan pyramids.
Explorers claim to have discovered evidence of the lost tribes of Israel all over the world.
Mysterious lines and figures of Nasca are etched into the ground in southern Peru.
The idea of a city of gold buried in the jungle fires the imaginations of Spanish conquistadors for centuries.
Enigmatic stone statues stand on remote Easter Island.
The Anasazi suddenly move their villages to perilous cliffs, then seemingly vanish decades later.