Myth Hunters

When Hitler arrived in Vienna, the very first thing he did was to go to the Hofburg museum to lay claim to what appeared to be a simple Roman spear head.

The effort of actor Richard Knight to find the lost treasure of privateer William Kidd.

For 1000 of years, ancient Greeks, Renaissance adventurers, Victorian explorers, and modern day scientists have searched for the source of Solomon's gold.

A series of C18 amber screens worth millions, and considered by many, the 8th wonder of the world. It vanished, and so began the greatest treasure hunt of the twentieth century.

The Honjo Masamune became the ceremonial sword of the ruling Tokugawa shoguns for 250 years. But in the aftermath of the Second World War it disappeared.

The Holy Grail, said to be the cup used by Christ at the last supper and believed to hold miraculous powers. For centuries Kings, knights and treasure hunters have sought it.

It's one of the most influential books ever written. It's said to provide the wisdom behind the Tarot and to have underpinned a string of 20th century esoteric cults.

Legend tells that somewhere in South America there is a great city of gold, El Dorado. To most it was just a legend, but Colonel Percy Fawcett was convinced he knew its location.

Heinrich Himmler sent his SS solders to locate a perfect copy of a book written nearly two thousand years before, which the Nazis call the birth certificate for the German race.

Ron Wyatt claimed he had found the Ark of the Covenant but he had no witnesses and could produce no evidence. Many people believe him but professional archaeologists are sceptical.

1924, a girl found a beautiful skull from a block of pure quartz crystal in the jungles of Central America. Anna Mitchell-Hedges claimed that her skull had telepathic powers.

Titulus Crucis, or Title of the Cross, is a piece of wood that, it's claimed, hung on the cross of Christ. It's displayed in a church in Rome. But is it real or a mediaeval fake?