Josh Gates on a camel for Expedition Unknown Season 14
The Big Picture For over fifteen years, Josh Gates has been taking audiences along with him on his unbelievable adventures around the world. He has had a number of series over the years, from Destination Truth, which saw him chasing after paranormal mysteries and urban legends on SyFy , and his long-running series Expedition Unknown, which delves into some of history's greatest mysteries.
GATES: This one, I have to say, came together a little bit faster than most. Many of these shows, especially when we're trying to film in really well-known heritage sites, can often take many months or even years. I remember when we were trying to do a Dead Sea Scrolls show, it took over two years to do the pre-production just to get ourselves all the permissions and get in the right place at the right time.
And it has to be a good story. It has to be something where there's meat on the bone, there is a mystery and a legend, or some puzzle that we don't understand that we can hopefully move the needle on that through the episode. And so, that's difficult. To do that over and over throughout the year to get ourselves in the right place at the right time to create a whole sequence of these shows is the hardest part of Expedition Unknown.
I think that's what makes the show so compelling for audiences, you're so involved with every aspect of it.There's More to the Nabataeans Than 'Expedition Unknown' Could Cover Something I was really interested in while watching this first part of the Petra mystery was the navigational petroglyphs. They were so far up.
And so, the Nabataeans, if you or I were passing by those rocks dying of thirst, we probably wouldn't know even what to look for, but they really encoded the landscape so that they could become masters of the desert. You mentioned the Romans. I know a lot about the Romans, but the Nabataeans are a group that I've never really had much exposure to. Watching the part of the episode where you talk about their cisterns and their pipes, it's very reminiscent of the Roman aqueducts. I'm curious.
GATES: For sure. This is a really important discovery. When we set out to make this episode, I never imagined that we would actually find something this significant beneath the Treasury. For a building as famous as the Treasury is, what's really jaw-dropping about it is how little we know about it. What are ACOR's plans with the remains and the findings once they're done researching them and trying to get as much information as possible?
And then, in the tomb finding a vessel that at first glance looks exactly like the Holy Grail from Last Crusade, everybody in the tomb just froze. We found this vessel clutched in the hand of the skeleton, and everybody just went silent, because nobody wanted to say it out loud. But everybody was thinking the same thing: That looks like the Holy Grail.
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