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The Tower of Babel, Sodom and Gomorrah, and Mount Sinai have seemingly vanished from the map; where are the Old Testament's legendary lost places, and what might they reveal?

History's Greatest Mysteries

Lost Places of the Old Testament

The gigantic statues of Easter Island have mystified humanity for centuries; how in the world did an ancient civilization, with only primitive tools, carve and then move thousands of these rock monuments around the island, and why?

The Secrets of Easter Island

Known as "The Terror of the Gulf," the whereabouts of Jean Lafitte's treasure remain unknown; the swamps and bayous were his base, and likely also his hiding place; treasure hunters have found very little of Lafitte's stash.

The Lost Pirate Treasure of Jean Lafitte

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Rising from the sands of the Egyptian desert is one of the ancient world's greatest wonders, the mighty Sphinx.

Secrets of the Sphinx

Percy Fawcett becomes obsessed with a lost city deep in the Amazon jungle, a place he names the City of Z; Fawcett vanishes trying to locate it despite numerous missions to find him.

Percy Fawcett and the Lost City of Z

Notorious mobster Bugsy Siegel is gunned down in his Beverly Hills living room; Siegel's killing becomes front page news; no arrest is ever made.

The Killing of Bugsy Siegel

This is the mysterious of the Dead Sea Scrolls; an ancient treasure map, recorded on a rare Copper Scroll, could lead to billions of dollars of buried treasure in gold, silver and jewels, hidden away thousands of years ago from Roman invaders.

Secrets of the Copper Scroll

Nicola Tesla had revolutionary ideas, but in the hands of the wrong people, those ideas could be used for evil purposes; when Tesla died, he allegedly had 80 trunks of papers full of ideas, but only 60 have been seen again.

The Missing Tesla Papers

The ancient ruler who amassed a fortune estimated to be worth 120 trillion in today's dollars; Genghis Khan hide his riches so well that to this day no one has unearthed them; 800 years later the fate of his treasure remains a mystery.

The Missing Riches of Genghis Khan

John Dillinger's life consists of brazen bank robberies across the country, but his death remains shrouded in mystery; what really happened to John Dillinger?

The Death of Dillinger

It's history's most famous lost city; the island kingdom that's baffled explorers for centuries; some say Atlantis is a myth, while others insist it was a very real place wiped out thousands of years ago.

The Search for Atlantis

The Burning Bush, the 10 Plagues, the Parting of the Red Sea these Biblical events in the Book of Exodus have shaped Judeo-Christian beliefs for centuries.

The Amazing Events of the Book of Exodus

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S6 E12 | The Missing Riches of Genghis Khan

E20 | Lost Places of the Old Testament

E19 | The Secrets of Easter Island

E18 | The Lost Pirate Treasure of Jean Lafitte

E17 | Secrets of the Sphinx

E16 | Percy Fawcett and the Lost City of Z

E15 | The Killing of Bugsy Siegel

E14 | Secrets of the Copper Scroll

E13 | The Missing Tesla Papers

E12 | The Missing Riches of Genghis Khan

E11 | The Death of Dillinger

E10 | The Search for Atlantis

E9 | The Amazing Events of the Book of Exodus