About this season
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 various explorations of historical icons and mysteries. Bernstein is the president and CEO of BOSS 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, which was surprising given the previous show "Time Titans" from the production crew never made it past the pilot. 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 Discovery Channel as an executive producer and host of a new prime-time series and specials. Hunter Ellis, host of Tactical to Practical and Man, Moment, Machine for The History Channel, then replaced Josh Bernstein as host.
Episodes (8)
1. Mummies of the Clouds
Aired 3 September 2007 • 60 min
500 years before the Inca, a band of warriors called the Chachapoya built the greatest stone monument in the Americas. It's three times the size of Egypt's largest pyramid, yet they disappeared without a trace.
2. The Hunley: New Revelations
Aired 10 September 2007 • 60 min
The Confederate Army, in an attempt to turn the tide of the Civil War, launched a new and daring weapon--a forty-foot submarine. The H.L. Hunley, armed with a primitive torpedo, destroyed a mighty Union warship, yet its crew never made it home.
3. Kings of the Stone Age
Aired 17 September 2007 • 60 min
The giant stone heads of the Olmec have amazed and mystified archaeologists for more than 150 years.
4. Pirates: Terror in the Mediterranean
Aired 24 September 2007 • 60 min
In a new expedition, Kara Cooney and Charles Ingram look for evidence of the Barbary Pirates at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.
5. God's Gold (1)
Aired 1 October 2007 • 60 min
Join the search for golden artifacts from Jerusalem's Temple, stolen by the Romans 2,000 years ago.
6. God's Gold (2)
Aired 15 October 2007 • 60 min
The search for the treasure of the Temple continues.
7. Timbuktu
Aired 22 October 2007 • 60 min
For centuries, Europeans heard legends of a mythical city in the heart of the Sahara, the source of endless caravans of gold, but it took 500 years to find.
8. Angkor Wat: The Eighth Wonder
Aired 29 October 2007 • 60 min
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.