Treasure

Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success into disaster.

Leonardo da Vinci is considered by many to be one of the greatest artists who ever lived. Yet his reputation rests on only a handful of pictures - including the world's most famous painting, the Mona Lisa. As the National Gallery in London prepares to open its doors on a remarkable exhibition of Leonardo's work, Fiona Bruce travels to Florence, Milan, Paris and Warsaw to uncover the story of this enigmatic genius - and to New York, where she is given an exclusive preview of a sensational discovery: a new Leonardo.

Filmed inside America's biggest art museum as it prepares for its 150th anniversary, only to endure closure due to Covid, demands for greater diversity and financial disaster.

Strategically located between Saudi Arabia and Iran lies the nation of Oman. In 2017, the Sultanate of Oman opened its territory to archeologists for the very first time. Since then, three sites of significant importance have been excavated — including evidence of the blending between early Bronze Age nomadic people and sailor merchants from Iran and Mesopotamia. Explore the discoveries and learn how the nomadic tribes of the past thrived.

The Apis bulls were revered as sacred animals in Ancient Egypt and buried at Saqqara, a vast necropolis in the desert close to present-day Cairo. In 1851, the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette discovered the underground sanctuary and under his direction, dozens of artefacts from the burial chambers were brought to light.

Jeremy Wade investigates the whereabouts of a lost relic of the Space Age that tarnished the reputation of NASA's first astronauts; as cutting-edge technology turns up brand-new evidence, experts might finally vindicate this American hero.