December 19, 2014 • 49m
19th-century explorers John L Stephens and Frederick Catherwood altered our view of the Maya civilisation and uncovered great wond...Read more
December 26, 2014 • 49m
In the early 1800s a party of men headed by a Thomas Beale set out from Virginia to the Colorado Rocky Mountains where they discov...Read more
January 2, 2015 • 49m
The dying days of World War II. Hitler was in his bunker, unable to accept defeat. But most Nazis knew the game was up. It was tim...Read more
January 9, 2015 • 49m
At the end of the 19th century, the Priest of Rennes-le-Chateau, Berenger Sauniere mysteriously and suddenly became fabulously ric...Read more
January 16, 2015 • 49m
A desert in California is said to hold something truly astonishing. According to the myth, somewhere in the Mojave Desert is a shi...Read more
January 23, 2015 • 49m
While on holiday in Spain researching a book, American author and writer Janice Bennett, found herself looking at an exhibit in th...Read more
January 30, 2015 • 49m
A quest for buried treasure allegedly hidden on an island near Costa Rica is undertaken by a German adventurer in the late 19th ce...Read more
February 6, 2015 • 49m
This week’s episode turns to King Arthur who according to legend was Britain's greatest king. He led his Knights of the Round Tabl...Read more
April 19, 2015 • 49m
This week’s episode turns to history’s greatest story of war loot - the legend of Yamashita's Gold. During WW2, it's said the Japa...Read more
April 26, 2015 • 49m
Yesterday’s fascinating series continues this week in America’s Rocky Mountains where according to legend, a fortune in gold bulli...Read more
May 3, 2015 • 49m
In 1911, Hiram Bingham was a young scholar specialising in modern Latin American history at Yale University. He was 36-years-old, ...Read more
May 10, 2015 • 49m
Historically the 'face of God' has been linked to the one of the greatest Catholic relics - the Veil of Veronica - a similar mirac...Read more
May 17, 2015 • 49m
According to legend, somewhere in Texas lies buried a vast treasure of Spanish gold. At the turn of the 20th century, one man is o...Read more