cordayalec-327-173569 True, it's not perfect. And some of Ashley's historic connections and theories are tenuous at best -- but they are real. The facts are there and the evidence is undeniable, even if it could just be coincidences.The biggest problem with the show -- and why it failed to live past one season -- is the fact that it was shown on syfy. Thus the editing push towards action packed excitement was necessary, as well as the cutting of a lot of archaeological details. 15 minutes per mystery was simply too little to delve into details and make the show come alive and real.For example the episode dealing with the sun disk was painfully shortened. Reading blog posts and articles by the crew about the trip from where the episode emerged, it becomes clear that there was a lot more archaeological details and investigations. And the fact that Ashley nearly died on that trip wasn't even mentioned in the show.In other words, if the show had avoided the 15 minutes per investigation and given each story more time, details and character, the show would have stuck around a lot longer.Also, Discovery or History would have been a better channel than Syfy.

review man Apparently this show was written by children. It's a truly pathetic attempt to make archeology more interesting by adding a legend quest theme. but it actually does more harm than good. It's as dumb and retarded as ancient aliens which also manages to take the hard work of scholars and regress it to mysticism and film flam.I actually enjoyed it because I like to hate things and this show provided me with a non stop tirade of hatred. It manages treat the audience like morons. It uses editing techniques to add bad voice overs to scenes where there clearly wasn't any dialogue. The editing in general is just awful. It's a mish-mash of extreme close ups and non-existent suspense. The episode I watched featured 3 close ups of spiders.The Indiana Jones knock off host just pisses you off. He is arrogant and manages to lose his Scottish accent in favour of an American accent on numerous occasions seemingly in dramatic situations.For a show that presents some adventure and history check out digging for the truth instead.

Jan Lipsansky Common! This nothing has with archeology, it's fake by fake. How you can trust anybody, who breaks in any place, trying to find "clue", oh yes, and suddenly he sees wings of angels or cross or labyrinth or stone in bull-corner or anything like this and knows where to go then? "See, it looks like skull - definitely skull of Mayan children or priests who hidden talking cross!" - "Oh, amazing! It's too small for coffin it must be arch of covenant!" - "Superb, thus sculpture looks like little box, it is clue pointing to this door!" Really funny. And what is surprising - they found nothing! Arch of covenant is hidden beyond wooden wall, so we leave it. Mayan talking cross is definitely hidden beyond stone block under water. Etc. And what this really annoying editing? I know spectators could have lower IQ but not all are stupid.

jw_11 I watched a few episodes of this show, and as many have said above, it is obvious that Syfy is trying to do some kind of an Indiana Jones/National treasure/da Vin code type show. It fails miserably. There is no excitement of him actually finding anything. Just places where relics may have been....Spoiler alert: (lol since there is nothing to spoil and he doesn't actually find anything)All of his local contacts who seem to reluctantly help him try to find what he is looking for also seem to be laughing at him. See Templar guy in Italy during the Ark of the Covenant search. After watching that debacle, I was glad to see him get sliced open by some giant thorn plant in the Mexican desert.I kept the show on just to watch Kinga walk around the desert in skin tight pants.They should just get a few more models and have them walk around too. Replace Ashley the "archeologist" with another hot girl... South Park or SNL needs to make fun of this guy, however if they tried, the joke would be lost, since a few months from now, no one will ever even know the show existed.