Episode
Expedition Unknown: Petra's Secrets Revealed
Overview
Rewriting history, Josh helps discover a tomb at Petra's iconic Treasury; the twelve skeletons inside may belong to a royal family of Petra; state-of-the-art tech could finally decipher the charred fragments of ancient scrolls.
Details
- Series
- Expedition Unknown
- Season
- Season 15
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 2024-10-16
Episode context
Petra's Secrets Revealed is Episode 2 in Season 15 of Expedition Unknown. It aired on 2024-10-16.
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Episode 1: Hunt for Petra's Lost Tombs
With unprecedented access, Josh digs in front of Petra's treasury; searching for clues to the mysterious civilization that created one of the new Seven Wonders of the World, Josh rappels a seven-story cliff face to perform a high-tech scan.
Episode 3: Search for Pan Am's Clipper
Josh braves Puerto Rico's choppy seas to find a missing plane. The crash of Pan Am's Clipper Endeavor changed commercial aviation forever. Josh and the team fight violent storms in the Atlantic as they hunt for the plane 2,000 feet below.
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