Digging for the Truth: Kings in the Stone Age

Adventure has a new name! Host, Navy pilot and survival expert Hunter Ellis takes a fresh look at the world's greatest ancient mysteries and puts adventure back into history as he travels to some of the most intriguing, remote and physically challenging locations in the world. With a fresh and engaging approach to archaeology, Hunter goes to extremes and takes us along for the ride. Were they portraits of favorite ball players, the trading cards of their era? Were they tributes to kings? Or did they serve some other, undiscovered purpose? Carved from single boulders of basalt, the giant stone heads of the Olmec have amazed and mystified archaeologists for more than 150 years. Hunter Ellis explores how a primitive civilization - Central America's first - moved mountains (sometimes fifty miles from quarry to installation) to make these monumental works of art... and reveals new insights into this captivating pre-Columbian culture. Will the KINGS OF THE STONE AGE break centuries of silence and divulge their secrets?