8.7/107 votesLoading...#1 - Giants of Patagonia
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 4/3/2006
Josh Bernstein accompanies paleontologists, naturalists, and crypto-zoologists on a search to determine whether the ground sloth could be the source of the giants of Patagonia.
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8.0/107 votesLoading...#2 - Roanoke: The Lost Colony
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/20/2006
Join Josh Bernstein as he investigates the roots of England's first permanent colony, who three years after landing, vanished.
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7.9/109 votesLoading...#3 - Angkor Wat: The Eighth Wonder
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 10/29/2007
Travel deep into the heart of the Cambodian jungle to discover a magnificent stone temple that was built on a scale unparalleled in human history.
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7.7/1010 votesLoading...#4 - The Real Temple of Doom
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/23/2006
Join Josh Bernstein as he ventures into the deep jungle of the Amazon to find out more information on the Chavin and whether or not they really had a "temple of doom."
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7.7/1015 votesLoading...#5 - America's Pyramids
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/30/2006
Join Josh Bernstein as he travels North America in search of its own pyramids. The adventure turns dangerous when Josh suffers a severe allergic reaction to fire ants.
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7.5/108 votesLoading...#6 - Troy: Of Gods and Warriors
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 3/20/2006
Josh travels to Greece and Turkey in search of the legendary city of Troy. He ends up finding out that Homer's Iliad was more than merely a work of fiction.
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7.4/1014 votesLoading...#7 - Who Built Egypt's Pyramids?
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/24/2005
The great Egyptian Pyramids of Giza have inspired awe and wonder and, quite likely, fierce speculation from the moment they were built. In fact, even the date of their construction has become a topic of debate. Explorer, survival expert, and host Josh Bernstein takes a hard look at the competing theories as to who really built the pyramids--and when. Archaeologists say it was the ancient Egyptians, others argue for an even older civilization. Filmed in HDTV, this fresh and engaging series digs for the truth and goes to extremes to do it! Josh examines the evidence, explores secret chambers in the heart of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, visits the first pyramid ever built, and tries his hand at ancient stone-quarrying techniques. It's a hard-won perspective, but, with the discovery of a mysterious flooded chamber deep beneath the Sphinx, Josh learns what appears to be the final truth.
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7.4/1011 votesLoading...#8 - City of the Gods
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 3/6/2006
Josh Bernstein explores Teotihuacán, the City of the Gods to learn of the people who lived there. During his time in the region, Josh rides in a hot-air balloon and even engages in an ancient local sport, which literally leaves him bruised.
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7.3/1012 votesLoading...#9 - The Real Queen of Sheba
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 3/13/2006
Josh travels to Ethiopia to find out whether or not there really was a Queen of Sheba, or if she was merely a legend.
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7.2/1022 votesLoading...#10 - The Iceman Cometh
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/21/2005
In 1991, a pair of vacationing German hikers stumbled onto one of the most remarkable finds in the history of archaeology: the perfectly preserved body of a 5,000-year old man. What made the discovery so important was more than just his state of physical preservation, but also the period of time from which he came--the very cusp of the age between stone and steel. Host and adventurer Josh Bernstein heads for the high Alps on the Austrian-Italian border to discover the latest secrets revealed by the clothes, weaponry, and body of Ötzi the Iceman. Josh faces down a deadly blizzard, helicopters out of near disaster, and comes face-to-face with a stone-cold, stone-age killer. Along the way, he discovers that the Iceman is rewriting our ideas about the life of our ancestors at the dawn of civilization--and he learns much about the character of Ötzi!
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7.2/1012 votesLoading...#11 - Lost Cities of the Amazon
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 4/24/2006
Josh Bernstein treks through thick overgrown regions of the Amazon rainforest on the trail of the legendary "Lost City of Z".
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7.1/1012 votesLoading...#12 - The Da Vinci Code: Bloodlines
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 3/27/2006
Josh Bernstein searches for evidence behind the controversial theory laid out in Dan Brown's book, The Da Vinci Code.
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7.1/107 votesLoading...#13 - Ramesses II: Visions of Greatness
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 2/26/2007
Was Ramesses II Egypt's Greatest Pharaoh? He built soaring statues, grand temples, and monuments to himself throughout Egypt. He even declared himself a living god. What forces drove him to be the greatest pharaoh?
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7.0/1023 votesLoading...#14 - Pompeii Secrets Revealed
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/31/2005
In 79 AD, the volcano Vesuvius exploded in one of history's deadliest eruptions, burying the city of Pompeii and other Roman towns along the Bay of Naples beneath layers of ash and pumice. Pompeii was rediscovered in the 18th century, but only recently have archaeologists and volcanologists come to understand exactly how the eruption unfolded, and why it took the people of Pompeii almost entirely by surprise. Intrigued, host Josh Bernstein visits the Bay of Naples, and learns the entire area is built on ancient volcanic rock, some of it still steaming. He climbs the world's most active volcano--Stromboli--an island near Sicily, where ""fireworks"" from the mountain are a nightly entertainment. Back at Pompeii, he searches for clues that might have enlightened the Romans to the growing threat in their midst. And he literally plays with fire as he follows the story right into the heart of Vesuvius.
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7.0/1021 votesLoading...#15 - Cleopatra: The Last Pharaoh
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/27/2006
Join Josh Bernstein as he joins Zahi Hawass in the hunt for mummies from the time of Cleopatra's reign as they try to uncover more information on one of the very last Pharaohs.
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7.0/1011 votesLoading...#16 - The Real Sin City: Sodom & Gomorrah
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 4/17/2006
Josh Bernstein follows the clues left in the Bible in hopes of finding the infamous cities of sin, Sodom and Gomorrah.
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6.9/1018 votesLoading...#17 - Mystery of the Anasazi
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 5/9/2005
In the American Southwest, there is no more puzzling mystery than the magnificent stone cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde. Why did the Anasazi Indians suddenly move their villages to these perilous cliffs in the 13th century--and then abandon them just decades later--and seemingly disappear from history? Was it drought? Invading tribes? Or an insidious ""cancer"" from within that may have caused them to turn to fierce warfare and even cannibalism? In search of answers, our host, the intrepid explorer and survival expert Josh Bernstein, travels from Mesa Verde, Colorado to remote canyons in Utah where the Anasazi took refuge. Piecing together the story from both archaeologists and Native Americans, he finally ends up, in his search for the truth, in the eerie and desolate ruins of the Anasazi's greatest cultural center--Chaco Canyon.
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6.9/1013 votesLoading...#18 - Stonehenge Secrets Revealed
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 2/6/2006
Join Josh Bernstein as he investigates the origins of the mysterious Stonehenge.
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6.8/1014 votesLoading...#19 - The Holy Grail
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/14/2005
For all its fame, the Holy Grail remains shrouded in mystery. What exactly was it? Could it have survived to this day? Why has it inspired so many treasure seekers? To Christians, it is the holiest of objects, the cup from which Jesus drank at the Last Supper, also believed to be the chalice that Joseph of Arimathea used to catch Christ's blood as he died on the cross. Though now thought of as a goblet, the actual word ""grail"" comes to us from the Latin word gradalis--a flat dish or shallow vessel brought to the table during various courses of a meal. The story itself did not originate until medieval times, when it helped inflame the Crusaders' quest. Host and adventurer Josh Bernstein follows the Grail's trail from Holy Land to medieval French castles to a dark chapter in the Nazi saga, when Hitler financed a search for the Grail to unite a secret society of knights. On the way, Josh learns its true meaning and power.
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6.8/1020 votesLoading...#20 - Secrets of the Nazca Lines
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/21/2005
Etched into the driest desert in the world, the mysterious lines and figures of Nazca in Southern Peru are invisible from the ground. Thought to have been made by the Nazca people, who flourished between 200 BC and 600 AD, in fact, these huge drawings were not discovered until the 1930s--and only then by commercial airline pilots who happened to over-fly them. Ever since, they have intrigued the world. Who built them, and why? Host, explorer, and survival expert Josh Bernstein takes on the secrets of the Nazca Lines, while flying micro-lites and powered para-gliders, clambering through thousand-year old irrigation tunnels, and even recreating rituals with contemporary Native Americans.
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6.8/106 votesLoading...#21 - King Tut: Secrets Revealed
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 2/5/2007
This week Josh travels again to Egypt, this time in search of what really happened to King Tut.
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6.7/1010 votesLoading...#22 - Quest for King Solomon's Gold
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/28/2005
Of all the rulers mentioned in the Bible, King Solomon was purportedly the wisest...and the richest! The reason? His access to vast quantities of gold. According to the Bible, the source of his legendary wealth was the goldmines located in the mysterious land of Ophir. Yet, what the Scriptures can't tell us is where Ophir might be found today. Host Josh Bernstein leads us on an epic 4,000-mile journey in search of the lost gold of King Solomon--sailing across the Red Sea, plunging down a Zimbabwean gold mine, and traveling deep into the Ethiopian Bush.
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6.7/1016 votesLoading...#23 - Giants of Easter Island
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 4/25/2005
On the remotest island on the face of the planet stand the massive, enigmatic stone statues of Easter Island. Who carved them? And why? Ever since Easter Island was first discovered, this tiny pinprick of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean has baffled scientists. How did the ancients who peopled this place even find it? Host Josh Bernstein sets out to unveil the mysteries of the island and of the remarkable stone heads that its first inhabitants left behind. Delving into the world of ancient Pacific Islanders, he relearns the lost art of Polynesian navigation, recreates the techniques of Easter Island masons, and participates in dangerous ancient rituals--all to solve one of the greatest enigmas of our time: the mystery of Easter Island.
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6.6/1020 votesLoading...#24 - Hunt for the Lost Ark
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/7/2005
For centuries, adventurers, and archeologists--the devout and determined, and even Indiana Jones--have all searched for the Bible's most sacred lost treasure: the Ark of the Covenant. Yet, despite all its fame, it mysteriously disappeared from the pages of history tens of centuries ago. How could something so powerful and holy simply vanish? That's what host and adventurer Josh Bernstein is determined to find out when he follows a trail that starts where the Ark's story begins--on Mount Sinai. Next, he explores a secret maze beneath Jerusalem's streets, and visits Deir es Sultan, an Ethiopian monastery located on the roof of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. In Ethiopia, he climbs up a sheer cliff to reach Debre Damo, one of the country's most ancient monasteries, and travels across Lake Tana to the place where some say the Ark is kept today. But how close can he get to this mighty and mysterious treasure?
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6.6/1018 votesLoading...#25 - The Vikings: Voyage to America
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 2/13/2006
Join Josh Bernstein as he sails a Viking ship from Denmark to America and tries to determine for himself if the Vikings really beat Christopher Columbus to America.
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The Best Episodes of Digging for the Truth
Every episode of Digging for the Truth ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Digging for the Truth!
Digging for the Truth was a History Channel television series. The first three seasons of the show focused on host Josh Bernstein, who journeyed on...
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Best Episodes Summary
"Giants of Patagonia" is the best rated episode of "Digging for the Truth". It scored 8.7/10 based on 7 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 4/3/2006. This episode scored 0.7 points higher than the second highest rated, "Roanoke: The Lost Colony".