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The Vanished Empire

Josh travels to Greece to find out exactly how the mighty Minoan civilization disappeared from the ancient world.

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  • Lasseter's Gold

    38:36
    Josh goes on an epic journey through the Australian outback to find a legendary field of gold known as Lasseter's Reef.
  • Cracking the D.B. Cooper Case

    39:28
    Josh sets off on an expedition to crack the mystery behind the perpetrator of the only unsolved plane hijacking in US history. Picking up where the FBI left off, he discovers new clues and theories in the Pacific Northwest.
  • Journey to the Ice Age

    39:04
    Josh treks deep into Siberia for a site where priceless mammoth bones are mined out of the permafrost. Once he gets back to the lab, Josh views the DNA results to find out if the woolly mammoth will walk the earth again.
  • Cloning the Woolly Mammoth

    38:36
    To help clone the extinct woolly mammoth back to life, Josh visits a Korean biotech lab driving the project and excavates ancient bones in a Canadian mine. He then descends into a vast sinkhole in Siberia to unearth frozen DNA.
  • The Lost Colony of Roanoke

    40:02
    Josh Gates joins leading archeologists as they investigate America's first missing-persons case, The Lost Colony of Roanoke. Following newly discovered clues, he digs for answers to this over 400-year-old mystery.
  • The Lost Tomb of Attila the Hun

    40:07
    Josh travels to Hungary to join three archaeological 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.
  • Plummer's Gold

    40:26
    Josh sets off for gold rush country to search for the lost fortune of a notorious Montana sheriff. During his investigation, Josh explores hidden cave systems and blows open a mine that's been sealed for over a century.
  • Lost Spanish Fortune, Found!

    36:40
    Josh travels the coast of Florida and to the newly opened country of Cuba in search of sunken treasure from a fleet of Spanish ships sunk in 1715.