—Intrigued by legendary mysteries and driven by curiosity, Josh Gates is on a mission for answers. "Expedition Unknown" chronicles his global adventures as he investigates iconic unsolved events, lost cities, buried treasures and other puzzling stories. Armed with a degree in archaeology, a quick wit and a thirst for action, Gates investigates recent developments before embarking on a detailed exploration. Whether he's trekking through Fiji in search of Amelia Earhart's remains or diving the deep seas of Panama to locate Captain Morgan's pirate ship, Gates' roughshod expeditions lead him one step closer to the truth.

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Season 166 of 6 Episodes

With exclusive access to one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Josh unravels wild conspiracy theories about the pyramid; crawling through every passage under the pyramid, Josh searches for the lost tomb and treasure of the Pharaoh Khufu.
To solve the mystery of the pyramid's construction, Josh joins a daring experiment to replicate its ancient build; first-of-their-kind 3D scans of a mysterious tunnel system could uncover a labyrinth of secrets buried deep beneath the stone.
Gold Rush's Parker Schnabel joins Josh Gates to investigate an infamous California stagecoach robbery gone bad; fighting a driving rainstorm, Josh leans on Parker's gold mining expertise to close in on the $10M lost treasure.
Josh dives the frigid waters of the Baltic Sea in search of a revolutionary Nazi submarine, the V-80; Hitler orders it scuttled to prevent the Allies from learning its secrets; Josh risks it all to bring the prototype to the surface.
Josh braves the Oregon coast to search for the real-life pirate treasure that inspired his all-time favorite movie; on the rocky shores of the Pacific, he finds pieces of a Spanish galleon that wrecked in 1694.
Josh braves Nicaragua's croc-infested waters and snake-filled jungle to find the wreckage of the Orus; chasing Gold Rush-era fortune, Vanderbilt's ship crashed in rapids on its maiden attempt to create a new route between the Atlantic and Pacific.

With unprecedented access, Josh digs in front of Petra's treasury; searching for clues to the mysterious civilization that created one of the new Seven Wonders of the World, Josh rappels a seven-story cliff face to perform a high-tech scan.
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Rewriting history, Josh helps discover a tomb at Petra's iconic Treasury; the twelve skeletons inside may belong to a royal family of Petra; state-of-the-art tech could finally decipher the charred fragments of ancient scrolls.
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Pushing into remote jungles, Josh investigates one of the 20th century's biggest heists - looting of Cambodian statues worth hundreds of millions; Josh rappels into a crumbling pyramid and digs up a treasure trove of missing monuments.
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A clandestine meeting with a Cambodian looter puts Josh on the trail of multi-million-dollar stolen monuments; Josh dives into a murky moat, where he unearths a priceless lost statue and a missing piece of a national treasure.
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In World War II's closing days, 18 American servicewomen were lost off the Ivory Coast. Armed with new technology and fresh insights from the crash archives, Josh joins Project Recover to guide the search for the heroines' lost C47 plane.
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Josh dives the waters off Tanzania to find a lost city and its fortunes, search ancient shipwrecks and uncover what could be the walls of a lost city that traded riches.
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Intrigued by legendary mysteries and driven by curiosity, Josh Gates is on a mission for answers. "Expedition Unknown" chronicles his global adventures as he investigates iconic unsolved events, lost cities, buried treasures and other puzzling stories. Armed with a degree in archaeology, a quick wit and a thirst for action, Gates investigates recent developments before embarking on a detailed exploration. Whether he's trekking through Fiji in search of Amelia Earhart's remains or diving the deep seas of Panama to locate Captain Morgan's pirate ship, Gates' roughshod expeditions lead him one step closer to the truth.

Josh Gates, Evan Stone, Jessica Chobot, Aidan Dodson, Gary Drayton, Chip Coffey

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