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Episode Guide

154 episodes · 33 transcripts · 33 summaries

Season 317 episodes

E01

Plummer's Gold

Nov 20161 site

Josh Gates heads to Montana, the Gold Rush territory to search for the missing fortune of notorious Old West sheriff, Henry Plummer.

E02

The Lost Tomb of Attila the Hun

Nov 20162 sites

Josh travels to Hungary to join three separate archeological teams looking for the lost tomb of Attila the Hun; legends and ancient texts lead the search from the bottom of the Danube to the mountain forests just outside of Budapest.

E03

The Vanished Empire

Nov 20161 site

Josh travels to Greece to explore Europe's first superpower and how it disappeared on the Mediterranean island of Crete.

E04

The Lost Colony of Roanoke

Nov 20161 site

America's first missing-persons case, the Lost Colony of Roanoke, is investigated with newly discovered clues.

E05

Cloning the Woolly Mammoth

Dec 20161 site

One of the most iconic creatures of the Ice Age, the Woolly Mammoth, has gone extinct and Joash and the team search for enough DNA to clone a woolly mammoth.

E06

Journey to the Ice Age

Jan 20171 site

Josh retrieves bone samples from the massive Batagay crater and gets DNA results to find out if the woolly mammoth will walk the earth again.

E07

Cracking the D.B. Cooper Case

Jan 20171 site

Josh Gates sets off on an expedition to crack the mystery behind the perpetrator of the only unsolved plane hijacking in U.S. history.

E08

Lasseter's Gold

Jan 20171 site

Josh Gates sets off deep into the Australian Outback, following the footsteps of legendary explorer Harold Lasseter, who claims to have found a vast field of gold.

E09

Tracking Tasmania's Tiger

Jan 20171 site

Josh Gates ventures to Australia's island state of Tasmania to investigate sightings of the supposedly extinct Thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian Tiger.

E10

Captain Kidd's Treasure

Feb 20172 sites

Josh retraces the footsteps of the legendary Captain Kidd in the hopes of finding his buried treasure; from the East Coast to the Caribbean, the search takes him to a real pirate shipwreck and to the island hideout of the notorious buccaneer.

E11

Africa's Cursed Lake of Gold

Mar 20171 site

Josh Gates journeys to the wilds of Namibia to embark on a treacherously deep dive in Lake Otjikoto for a long lost World War I treasure.

E12

The Ark of the Covenant

Mar 20179 sites✓ transcript

Josh Gates chases one of archaeology's most legendary quests: the Ark of the Covenant, the gold-covered chest said to house the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments. The Ark's last documented location was Jerusalem's Temple Mount, where it resided in Solomon's Temple until the Babylonian siege of 589 BCE, after which it vanished from the historical record. Gates investigates two competing theories about its fate—one suggesting the prophet Jeremiah hid it in secret passages beneath the Temple Mount before the Babylonian invasion, and another claiming it was transported out of the Middle East entirely to Ethiopia. The expedition takes Gates into previously unfilmed underground chambers in Jerusalem and follows trails to Ethiopian sites where local traditions insist the sacred relic remains hidden.

E13

England's Vanished Crown Jewels

Mar 20171 site

Josh Gates goes on a quest to find the legendary lost treasure of King John; exploring the deadly marshlands of England to find the despised king's crown jewels, which were swept away in a freak tidal surge in the 13th century.

E14

Corsica's Nazi Treasure

Mar 20171 site

Josh Gates hunts for the hidden treasure of Erwin Rommel, a Nazi general who plundered the wealth of North Africa as his tank corps fled the continent; never-explored underground lakes and undersea relics of World War II.

E15

Italy's Barbarian Booty

May 20172 sites

To find the plundered riches of the Roman Empire, Josh Gates must locate the tomb of the Visigoth king Alaric in Italy; the hunt extends from the capital of Rome to the southern city of Cosenza.

E16

India's Atlantis

Jun 20171 site

Josh Gates travels to India in search of Dwarka, a mythical kingdom swallowed by the ocean. To find find evidence that the golden city is real, Josh dives into the Arabian Sea and visits a dig site that could rewrite history.

E17

Lost Spanish Fortune, Found!

Jun 20172 sites

Josh Gates travels down to the coast of Florida and to the recently opened Cuba in search of a sunken treasure from a fleet of Spanish ships that were sunk in 1715; the hunt takes in deep into the Atlantic and the National Archives of Cuba.