Digging for the Truth

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Digging for the Truth
Series DVD Cover - Season One
Format	Documentary
Starring	Josh Bernstein (Seasons 1-3) Hunter Ellis (Season 4)
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	37
Production
Running time	60 Minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	History Channel
Original run	January 24, 2005 – Present
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Digging for the Truth is a History Channel documentary television series. The first three seasons of the show focused on host Josh Bernstein, who journeyed on various explorations of historical icons and mysteries. Bernstein is the president and CEO of BOSS (Boulder Outdoor Survival School) and has a degree in anthropology and psychology from Cornell University. The show airs every Monday night at 9:00 EST on the History Channel. The series premiered in January, 2005 and has since become the highest-rated series in the history of The History Channel.^[1] The third season premiered on January 22, 2007, with a 2-hour special event on the quest for Atlantis.

Bernstein announced on February 20, 2007, that he would be leaving The History Channel and Digging for the Truth, and would, as of April, join the The Discovery Channel as an executive producer and host of a new prime-time series and specials.^{[citation needed]} Hunter Ellis, host of Tactical to Practical and Man, Moment, Machine for The History Channel, has replaced Josh Bernstein as host.

1 Synopsis
2 Episodes
3 Book
4 External links
5 References

[edit] Synopsis

Each episode typically deals with an event or subject in history that is not completely understood by modern historians. As such, many of the topics covered are controversial in some respect. Josh Bernstein usually mentions the various theories that exist on the subject, although the episode may not actually explore all of them. He then travels to various locations to ask questions of researchers, and he often he puts himself into situations (e.g. working in a quarry, climbing a rockface) that simulate the activities of people in the time period he is exploring. Almost all of the researchers he talks to are professionals in the subject at hand, and many of the places he visits (e.g. the inside of a pyramid) are not open to the general public. At the end of the each episode, Josh pulls together everything discussed in the episode to either formulate a hypothesis of what actually happened historically or to conclude that what really happened remains a mystery.

[edit] Episodes

[edit] Season One

Who Built Egypt's Pyramids?
Pompeii Secrets Revealed
Hunt for the Lost Ark
The Holy Grail
The Iceman Cometh
Quest for King Solomon's Gold
Passage to the Maya Underworld
The Lost Tribe of Israel
Secrets of the Nazca Lines
The Search for El Dorado
Giants of Easter Island
Mystery of the Anasazi
Nefertiti: The Mummy Returns

[edit] Season Two

The Real Temple of Doom
America's Pyramids
Stonehenge Secrets Revealed
The Vikings: Voyage to America
Roanoke: The Lost Colony
Cleopatra: The Last Pharaoh
City of the Gods - Teotihuacan
The Real Queen of Sheba
Troy: Of Gods and Warriors
The Da Vinci Code: Bloodlines
The Giants of Patagonia
The Real Sin City: Sodom and Gomorrah
The Lost Cities of the Amazon

[edit] Season Three

Atlantis: New Revelations 2-hour Special
Lost Empire Of Genghis Khan
King Tut Secrets Revealed
New Maya Revelations
Ramesses II: Visions of Greatness
Machu Picchu
Secrets of Mummies
Lost Treasures of Petra
Stonehenge of the Americas
Lost Treasures of the Copper Scroll
The Aztecs
Searching for King David

[edit] Season Four

Mummies of the Clouds
The Hunley: New Revelations
Kings of the Stone Age
Pirates: Terror in the Mediterranean
God's Gold, Part 1
God's Gold, Part 2
Timbuktu
Angkor Wat: Eighth Wonder of the World

[edit] Book

In late 2006, Josh Bernstein's book, Digging for the Truth: One Man's Epic Adventure Exploring the World's Greatest Archaeological Mysteries, was published. In the book, Bernstein talks a bit about his past and BOSS, but it is mostly a behind-the-scene look at various episodes. The book has received good reviews.^{[citation needed]}