Experts travel to incredible locations across the world to find out the truth behind some famous unsolved mysteries
What would you do to
get to the bottom of something? Would you travel the globe to
hunt down every last clue? Would you risk your life to find out the truth? The scholars, archeologists1, and scientists on National Geographic Channel's "
Ancient X-Files" do these and more. Each story in this series is a piece of detective2 work. The experts follow clues and
put theories
to the test in an attempt to explain the unexplained.
In "
The Holy Grail3" episode, Janice Bennett
investigates whether a chalice4 in Spain could be the famous cup used by Jesus Christ. As a Grail researcher, Bennett has
come across many fakes in her time. However, this
particular chalice is guarded by a brotherhood5 that has sworn to
defend it with their lives.
Another mystery presented in the same episode is that of the Minotaur's labyrinth6. According to Greek mythology7, the Minotaur was a creature with the head and tail of a bull on the body of a man. It was locked up in a massive labyrinth with no way out. Now a scholar from Oxford University believes he has found its mysterious location.
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