Myth Hunters

An amateur Filipino treasure hunter seeks gold stolen and hidden by the Japanese during World War II.

This image of the 'Face of God' on a transparent cloth, seemingly not made by human hands.

According to myth, there is a ship wreck in the Mojave Desert with precious cargo, and in 1870 Charley Clusker risked everything to search for it.

At the turn of the 20th century, Dave Arnold, guided only by a cryptic old map, searches for buried treasure in Texas.

A German journalist and a former Marine believe the Nazis may have hidden stolen gold in Austria's Lake Topiltz.

A map drawn by the only survivor of a doomed French expedition into the Rocky Mountains is believed to provide a clue to the location of a fortune in gold bullion.

Two amateur explorers discover the Maya civilization in the early 19th century.

German adventurer August Gissler spends nearly two decades searching for pirate treasure on Cocos Island.

American writer and historian Janice Bennett goes on a quest to prove the Holy Chalice of Valencia - a relic displayed within its cathedral for over 500 years - is the original cup of Christ used at the Last Supper.

In France a tiny village has attracted treasure hunters for the last 70 years. At the end of the 19th Century, the Priest of Rennes-le-Chateau, Berenger Sauniere became fabulously rich. And nobody quite knows how.

The extraordinary story of Hiram Bingham's amazing discovery of one of the great wonders of the modern world, Machu Picchu.

Three ciphertexts originating from an 1885 pamphlet detailing treasure being buried by a man named Thomas J. Beale in a secret location in Bedford County, Virginia, in the 1820s.

According to legend, he was Britain's greatest king. His name was King Arthur. In the 1960's a team of archaeologists, led by the outstanding excavator of his day, Leslie Alcock, set out to prove the myth was real.