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Expedition Unknown Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
17 Episodes 2016 - 2017
Episode 1
Plummer's Gold
Wed, Nov 2, 2016 60 mins
Josh Gates searches for the lost fortune of a notorious Montana sheriff in the Season 3 premiere. His hunt takes him to hidden cave systems; and he even blows open a mine that has been sealed for more than a century.
Episode 2
The Lost Tomb of Attila the Hun
Wed, Nov 9, 2016 60 mins
Josh encounters three separate archaeological teams looking for the lost tomb of Attila the Hun in Hungary. Using legends and ancient texts as a guide, Josh's search takes him from the bottom of the Danube to the mountain forests outside of Budapest.
Episode 3
The Vanished Empire
Wed, Nov 16, 2016 60 mins
Josh Gates travels to Greece to investigate how the Minoan civilization mysteriously disappeared.
Episode 4
The Lost Colony of Roanoke
Wed, Feb 28, 2018 60 mins
Josh works with archaeologists to discover what happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke, an unexplained disappearance case that dates back 400 years.
Episode 5
Cloning the Woolly Mammoth
Sat, Apr 1, 2017 60 mins
Host Josh Gates helps scientists who want to bring the woolly mammoth back to life. First, he visits the Korean biotech lab driving the project. Then, he joins an excavation of ancient bones in a working Canadian gold mine. Finally, he descends into a vast sinkhole in Siberia to unearth frozen DNA.
Episode 6
Journey to the Ice Age
Wed, Jan 4, 2017 60 mins
Josh searches for a viable sample of mammoth DNA. Included: He retrieves bone samples from the massive Batagay crater; and journeys far upriver to a site in the lawless Siberian wilderness, where tusk hunters carve out troves of bones from the permafrost. Also: The specimens are treated and tested in a lab; and finally, Josh learns the chances of the woolly mammoth walking again.
Episode 7
Cracking the D.B. Cooper Case
Wed, Feb 1, 2017 60 mins
The only unsolved plane hijacking in U.S. history captures the interest of host Josh Gates, who joins citizen sleuths on the hunt in the Pacific Northwest for new clues and theories about perpetrator D.B. Cooper. Included: Gates jumps out of an aircraft.
Episode 8
Lasseter's Gold
Wed, Jan 18, 2017 60 mins
Host Josh Gates follows in the footsteps of a prospector known as Harold Lasseter, who claimed in 1930 to have found a vast field of gold in a remote and desolate corner of central Australia.
Episode 9
Tracking Tasmania's Tiger
Sat, Apr 29, 2017 60 mins
Host Josh Gates investigates recent eyewitness accounts and photographic evidence of the supposedly extinct Thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian Tiger, during a trip to Australia's island state of Tasmania.
Episode 10
Captain Kidd's Treasure
Wed, May 3, 2017 60 mins
Josh Gates retraces the footsteps of the legendary Captain Kidd in the hopes of finding his buried treasure. From the East Coast to the Caribbean, the search takes him to a real pirate shipwreck and to the island hideout of the notorious buccaneer.
Episode 11
Africa's Cursed Lake of Gold
Wed, Mar 1, 2017 60 mins
Josh Gates journeys to the wilds of Namibia to embark on a treacherously deep dive in Lake Otjikoto for a long-lost World War I treasure.
Episode 12
The Ark of the Covenant
Wed, Mar 8, 2017 60 mins
Josh Gates follows in the footsteps of Indiana Jones as he searches in Israel and Ethiopia for the lost Ark of the Covenant, the sacred relic said to contain the Ten Commandments and possess extraordinary powers.
Episode 13
Vanished Crown Jewels
Wed, Nov 29, 2017 60 mins
Josh Gates revisits his search to find the legendary lost treasure of King John. He explores the deadly marshlands of England to find the despised king's crown jewels, which were swept away in a freak tidal surge in the 13th century.
Episode 14
Corsica's Nazi Treasure
Wed, Mar 22, 2017 60 mins
Josh Gates hunts for the hidden treasure of Erwin Rommel, a Nazi general who plundered the wealth of North Africa as his tank corps fled the continent. The search brings Josh to never-explored underground lakes and undersea relics of World War II.
Episode 15
Italy's Barbarian Booty
Wed, May 31, 2017 60 mins
To find the plundered riches of the Roman Empire, Josh Gates must locate the tomb of the Visigoth king Alaric in Italy. The hunt extends from Rome to the southern city of Cosenza, where the mayor is spearheading an effort to find the tomb.
Episode 16
India's Atlantis
Wed, Jun 7, 2017 60 mins
Josh Gates travels to India in search of Dwarka, a mythical kingdom swallowed by the ocean. To find evidence that the golden city is real, Josh dives into the Arabian Sea and visits a dig site that could rewrite history.
Episode 17
Lost Spanish Fortune, Found!
Wed, Jun 14, 2017 60 mins
Josh Gates travels the coast of Florida and to the newly opened country of Cuba in search of sunken treasure from a fleet of Spanish ships sunk in 1715. The hunt takes him deep into the Atlantic and into the previously sealed National Archives of Cuba.