Solving History with Olly Steeds

- Season 1

(2010)

Solving History investigate the theory that the Ark of the Covenant survived destruction and was sent to Ethiopia before the Babylonians attacked Jerusalem and destroyed Solomon's Temple.

Journalist Olly Steeds goes hands-on in search of the true reason for Peru's Nazca Lines. What was the real purpose of these giant shapes and animal figures carved into the desert thousands of years ago that can only really be seen from the air?

Journalist Olly Steeds follows new clues and treks deep into the remote Andes Mountains in search of the legendary city of gold.

Journalist Olly Steeds investigates the fabeled lost city of Atlantis to test theories of what really may have caused the annihilation of an entire civilization in an instant.

Olly travels Eastern Europe in search of the final hiding place of "The Amber Room", a quarter billion dollar piece of art made of amber, gems, and gold that was the pride of the Russian Czars before being looted by the Nazis in 1941.

Olly discovers some lost, ancient mummies from different cultures that were recently re-found in a German museum and unravels how they were used by Hitler's SS for the Nazi's ultimate propaganda mission.

Journalist Olly Steeds examines the horrors of prison life at the notorious Devil's Island prison in tropical French Guiana and tests first-hand whether tales of great escapes could be true.