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Mysteries can be
buried anywhere,

under the earth,

beneath the sea,

or even right
under our own feet.

And when we stumble upon them,

sometimes what we find
can change history.

Tonight, we're uncovering
heavy-metal discoveries,

from a school yard hiding
an explosive secret-

He thinks it's
just an old pipe,

but as he works
to clear it away,

he freezes.

Panic sets in, and the school
is immediately evacuated.

to a
legendary lost ax-

It's got all these
stuff marks on it,

looks like there are
even burn marks on it,

but the guitar also
looks pretty familiar.

to a pair
of steel giants

buried beneath the waves.

At first, he thinks it's
just an old shipwreck.

Then he calls in his friend,

and what they discover
just makes no sense at all.

Join us now,

because nothing
stays hidden forever.

Old storage units
usually hide junk,

but one lucky buyer
opened the door

to something straight
from the silver screen.

In 1989, a contractor
from Long Island

drops a hundred bucks on
an abandoned storage unit,

one of those forgotten spaces

no one's paid rent on for years.

He has no clue what's
inside it, of course,

but figures it might
be a fun gamble.

He steps inside and sees a
giant lump covered in blankets.

And when he pulls
off the blankets,

underneath is a
white sports car.

But the roof is caved
in, and it has no wheels.

It looks like a
Lotus sports car,

but there is some
strange modifications.

There are fins jutting
from the sides,

and the whole design is
angular and futuristic.

It's beat-up

and can't be driven on the road

in this condition,

but he sees potential
and decides to fix it up.

He loads the
odd-looking car

onto a flatbed truck

and hits the road.

And as he's driving,
the CB keeps crackling.

And truck drivers keep
asking him the same question,

"Hey, is that the James Bond car

from the 'Spy Who Loved Me'?"

It sounds crazy,

but could this mystery
car really be the one

that made movie history?

The contractor has
never seen the movie,

so when he gets home,

he and his wife rent the VHS.

As they watch the film,

James Bond races away from
the bad guys in a white Lotus.

The car drives
to the edge of the pier,

and then it transforms.

Fins pop out, the
wheels are gone,

and now, it's going under
the water like a submarine.

This sub is the spitting
image of the car

that he recovered
from the storage shed.

If his car is the
car, it's not just rare,

it's priceless.

So he contacts Bond author,
Ian Fleming's Foundation,

for confirmation.

The foundation's
mission is to preserve the works

and memorabilia of
Fleming's career,

including his most famous
creation, "James Bond."

The president of the
foundation, Doug Redenius,

tells the contractor that eight
white Lotus cars were made

for "The Spy Who
Loved Me" in 1977.

Some were built for driving,

others were just stunt cars,

but only one was made
to go in the water.

Known as Wet Nellie on
set,

it was special-built
with no gears.

It couldn't even
drive in reverse.

Its only purpose was to go
underwater, film the shot,

and resurface.

After filming
wrapped in The Bahamas,

the Lotus was shipped
to Long Island,

placed in the storage shed,

and prepaid for 10 years.

There's no real record
of who put the car

in the storage unit,

but the rent wasn't paid,

and the producers who
probably rented the unit

forgot all about it.

Once the car's
identity is confirmed,

the contractor restores Wet
Nellie from the ground up,

turning the dusty relic back
into the legend it once was.

Over the next
several years,

the contractor takes Wet Nellie

around to car shows
and exhibitions.

But in 2013,

he finally decides to put
the car up for auction.

Well, that
hundred dollar investment

really paid off,
'cause ultimately,

that car was sold at an auction

for a million dollars

to an anonymous buyer.

Later, it's revealed
that that buyer was Elon Musk.

Next up, another
heavy-metal mystery

that makes some serious waves.

It's the 1980s, and off
the coast of New Jersey,

a man by the name of Paul
Hepler is mapping the sea floor

using a device called
a magnetometer.

It essentially can
create geographic maps

based on the earth's
magnetic field.

He's looking for
rocks and reefs,

things that could
snag a fishing net,

or potentially, even
sink a fishing trawler.

He maps these
dangerous places

to help others avoid them,

and the work is usually
slow and repetitive

until this day.

His machine starts wailing.

It's picked up on two huge
objects on the seafloor below.

He drops on his dive gear,
jumps into the Atlantic

just to see what's going on,

but visibility's
really low this day,

the water's completely murky.

Paul tries to feel his
way through the waters,

but suddenly, his hand
hits something huge.

There are two cylinders side
by side about 90 feet down.

At first,

he thinks it's just an
old shipwreck.

Over the next few weeks,

he explores the find
several more times.

Then he calls in his
friend, Dan Lieb,

who's also the president

of the New Jersey Historical
Divers Association.

And what they discover

just makes no sense at all.

They're
not ship parts,

they're rusty old trains.

Hepler and Lieb aren't
train enthusiasts,

these are water guys,
these are divers,

so they have no idea
what they're looking at.

So they sketch, they
document everything they can.

They take measurements,

and they take their
findings to true experts.

Well, the response is
absolutely astonishing.

What they have discovered

are some of the earliest
trains ever built,

Planet class 2-2-2 trains,

some of the rarest
locomotives from the 1840s.

They weigh 15 tons each.

The production period
for the Planet class 2-2-2

was an extremely fleeting time,

but these 15-ton,
lightning-fast behemoths

were cutting-edge
for the period,

and they were known
as the "Iron Horses."

Their design is
striking.

Six-wheeled frames with a
pair of massive drive wheels,

flanked by smaller wheels
in front and behind.

They were small by
modern standards,

used to pull passenger
cars over short distances.

But how
did they wind up

at the bottom of the ocean?

The most widely
accepted theory

is that they were being
transported by barge

and maybe a storm came
and they fell overboard,

maybe the boat capsized,

or perhaps they actually
forcibly jettison these trains

in an effort to
keep the boat afloat

and to lose additional ballast.

Whatever happened,

it's quite a mystery.

No one ever reported the
loss of these locomotives,

which seems incredible.

No salvage teams
were sent out there.

No newspaper reports about this.

They just vanished
from the record

until Paul Hepler made his dive.

Today, they lie
where they fell

side by side on the sea floor,

preserved by the cold
Atlantic currents

like a snapshot of the
beginnings of American rail.

For years, it sat
unnoticed on a shelf,

just another hunk of metal,

until someone took a closer
look and uncovered so much more.

It's 2014 in
Cornwall, England,

and an elderly woman by
the name of Doreen Liddell

has passed away.

And her family calls
in a local auctioneer

by the name of David Lay

to come and investigate
her belongings.

Initially, he sees
much of the usual.

Old books, faded paintings,

a few semi-valuable antiques.

Nothing remarkable.

Then, he spots a
small cat statue

on top of the hearth
by the fireplace.

The family tells
him,

"Throw it away if it's
not worth anything."

But something about it
catches David's eye,

and he wants to
investigate further.

The golden earrings,
its weight, and the patina

make David hesitate.

He decides to bring
it back to his office,

where he contacts
the British Museum

to have them examine it.

Experts at
the museum run tests,

and the results are shocking.

Scientific analysis
determines that this statue

is an authentic

2,500-year-old Egyptian bronze.

It turns out
she's not just any cat.

The statue represents Bastet,

the Egyptian goddess of
protection and fertility.

Bastet is one of the
most beloved goddesses

in the Egyptian pantheon.

Statues of Bastet
were cast in bronze

and often found in
domestic settings,

placed within temples,

and also within graves

to accompany the deceased on
the journey to the netherworld.

So how did a sacred
statue from ancient Egypt

end up on top of a
fireplace in Cornwall?

David digs deeper

and finds out that
Doreen's late husband

worked for one of London's
oldest auction houses.

But it turns out,
their clients have included

one of the world's most famous
archeologists, Howard Carter.

During the 19th and
early 20th centuries,

Egyptian antiquities
poured into Europe,

and Carter and his team

were responsible for
unearthing over 5,000 artifacts

in the Valley of
the Kings alone.

These include golden
chariots, thrones, jewelry.

And most famously,

Carter is the man who
opened the tomb of King Tut.

Somewhere along the
way,

this Bastet had slipped
through the cracks

and ended up on
the family hearth,

mistaken for a
worthless souvenir.

After gathering
dust for decades,

the statue is now
ready for a new home.

When the statue
goes to auction,

they have only modest hopes

for how much money
it'll bring in,

maybe 10,000, 15,000.

But when the bidding starts,

it just suddenly explodes.

$20,000 bids, 25,000,

goes up to 50,000.

When the hammer finally
falls,

what did this cat drag in?

Almost $80,000.

Some old treasures sit
right under our noses,

others are buried deeper,

waiting for the right
moment to resurface,

like this next steel giant.

It's the fall of 1944,

and Estonia is
finally being freed

from the crossfire
of World War II.

Germans are now in retreat

as the country goes
back into Soviet hands.

In a quiet lakeside
village,

a young boy walks
along the shore.

He's there to fish, something
that he does all the time.

This time, however, there's
something different.

He notices bubbles rising
slow and steady just offshore.

And then he notices
something even stranger.

Deep grooves cut into the
tundra, leading into the lake.

And as the days go by,
the bubbles don't stop.

Now, for some
reason or another,

the boy decides to never tell
anybody about the bubbles

or the tracks.

But he never forgets about them.

Then 50 years later,

a casual conversation

brings this mystery
back to the surface.

In the early 2000s, the boy,

who, by this time,
is an old man,

is swapping stories
with Igor Shedunov,

a historian who heads a
local war history club

called Otsing.

When the man recalls
the tale of the lake,

the strange bubbles,
the mysterious tracks,

Igor is 100% locked
into this story.

And then, Igor decides
to investigate.

Igor gathers a team of
divers.

They head into the water with
ropes and their own intuition.

No sonar, no radar.

They sweep the lake
bed

and initially find
nothing in the silt.

But then,

they detect the presence of
something big and metallic

buried deep in the lake.

They don't
know what it is,

but they're certain
it shouldn't be there.

The object is buried
under about seven feet of water

and nine more feet
of peat and silt.

But nonetheless, they recognize

that this is no ordinary wreck.

They begin a recovery effort.

They bring in winches,
cables, and bulldozers.

And then,

slowly, carefully,
they start to raise it.

Finally, when it
breaks the surface,

they're astonished
with what they find,

a full-size military
tank caked in mud.

They conclude that this
tank is a Soviet T-34,

a well-preserved T-34.

The treads are still there,

ammo is still inside of the gun.

It's a remarkable
find, but also a mystery.

Why was a perfectly
preserved tank left here?

It turns out,
during World War II,

Nazi Germany made extensive use

of captured foreign equipment,

like the Soviet T-34 tank.

They were called beutepanzer,
or "a captured tank."

Because the Soviet T-34

was such an excellent
armored fighting vehicle,

the Germans, by God,
made use of them

when they captured them.

But during the retreat
in September of 1944,

the Germans couldn't
bring this tank with them.

And so, rather than
leaving it behind

to allow the
Soviets to recapture

and return the
vehicle to service,

the decision was made to
push it into the lake,

where nobody can use it again.

The Germans may
have tried to bury it,

but now Igor is determined
to bring it back to life.

A restoration crew
cleans up the tank,

and they also decide to put
the key into the ignition

and see if this machine
will actually fire up.

Despite decades
of being underwater,

when they turn the key,

it roars back to life,

which shows that the
legacy of World War II,

even though it seems
like a long time ago,

is still with us today.

We've seen metal made
to conquer roads, rails,

and battlefields,

but this next find
doesn't roll, it rocks.

It's 2009 in Curacao,
off the coast of Venezuela.

Donald Balentina is this
part-time guitar repairman

who one day has someone
come into his shop

holding a pretty
unique-looking ax.

It's a beat-up guitar.

It's been played for decades,

and it's been
played pretty hard.

It's got all these
scuff marks on it,

looks like there are
even burn marks on it,

but the guitar also
looks pretty familiar.

It's a 1954 Gibson
Les Paul Custom,

heavily modified
with three pickups

and a unique wiring setup,

features that are
rarely seen together.

Despite the wear and tear,

it looks like a high-end,
maybe one-of-a-kind instrument.

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examines the guitar,

the scratches, the burn marks
by the bridge, the pickups,

he realizes he's seen
this guitar before.

It looks
exactly like the one

played by '70s rock
icon Peter Frampton.

So what's it doing in Curacao?

Back in 1980,

Frampton and his band had just
played a show in Venezuela,

and they board a plane
to head to the next show,

which is gonna take
place in Panama.

Now, the gear is
following the band

on a separate cargo plane.

The band make it to Panama.

The cargo plane,
unfortunately, doesn't.

The aircraft
crashed upon takeoff,

and tragically, the four
crew members never made it,

and neither did
Frampton's guitar.

This wasn't just any
guitar, this was iconic.

It defined the sound

on one of the greatest
live albums of all time,

"Frampton Comes Alive!"

The album and the
guitar that he played

turned him into a superstar
seemingly overnight.

The album goes to number
one on the Billboard 200

for 10 weeks,

and it even hits
platinum eight times.

The cover of
"Frampton Comes Alive!"

has the musician holding
this Les Paul guitar.

So, when the plane goes down,

people believe that a small
piece of rock and roll history

has been lost forever.

Convinced this
is the legendary ax,

Donald reaches out
to the only people

who would know for certain.

Donald takes
photos of the guitar

and sends them to
Frampton's team.

The response is
almost immediate.

The wiring, the custom
features, the burn marks,

even the serial number confirms

this is definitely
the real thing.

It's an
amazing discovery,

but the guitar's journey
is just as extraordinary.

It turns out that
after the crash,

pieces of the wreckage
were salvaged by locals.

That included the
Les Paul guitar,

which finds its way into
the hands of a musician,

who eventually passes the
guitar down to his son,

who brings it into
Donald's shop.

Now, at first,
the man vanishes,

but then a few months
later, he resurfaces,

and he's asking
$5,000 for the guitar.

And after months of negotiation
between Donald and the man,

Donald purchases the guitar.

It now belongs to him.

But Donald doesn't keep it.

Instead,

he flies to Nashville

and personally returns
it to Peter Frampton

without asking for a dime.

Frampton is stunned.

The guitar that
shaped his sound,

that transformed his life,

lost for decades,

is back in his hands.

And soon, it's back
on stage with him.

Frampton christens the guitar
with a new name, Phoenix,

a reference to the mythical
bird that rises from the ashes,

just as this guitar has
come alive yet again.

Far from the stage,

another instrument
lies buried in Denmark,

waiting centuries
to be heard again.

In 1797, a farmer, Ole
Pedersen, is digging up peat

in Brudevaelte Mose.

It's a peat bog, and
it's hard, dirty work,

but they save the peat to
store and burn all winter long.

They've been doing
it for generations.

But today, as Ole drives
his spade into the earth,

something rings hollow.

He digs out a long,
twisted bronze tube

completely unlike
anything he's ever seen.

Over the next few days,

he finds five similar
ones just like it

along with what
might be mouthpieces.

He's no expert on instruments,

but he presumes what he's found

are some kind of
an ancient horn.

These six strange
instruments

are sent to Copenhagen,

where they attract a lot of
attention but remain a mystery.

It takes
another 40 years

before anyone can figure
out what they are.

In 1836, the Danish
historian Christian J. Thomsen

examines these objects
with fresh eyes.

He draws on ancient Norse
sagas and local folklore,

and he pulls a
name from the past

to describe what these
things are, lurs.

Lurs are Bronze
Age brass instruments

with no valves or finger holes,

just a mouthpiece at one end

and a flared bell at the other.

The sound they make
is deep and resonant

and can carry for miles.

It's something ancient
and otherworldly.

Until Ole made his
discovery,

no one in the modern age
has seen anything like it.

Even more
incredible than what they are

is how they were made.

Over 200 years later,
in 1990,

scientists finally
X-rayed these instruments.

They find no signs
of any hammering,

just thin seams cast together.

It tells them that the
horn was built painstakingly,

a slow process using wax molds
to go section by section.

And they can date this
technique around 750 BC.

This places the lurs

among some of the oldest
bronze wind instruments

ever discovered.

Since then, over 60
have been discovered

across Northern Europe,

always in bogs and
often in pairs,

but the Brudevaelte remains
the most extraordinary.

Six complete horns still intact.

Remarkably,

these ancient instruments also
still work.

Modern musicians have
performed on these,

and it brings to mind

what the ancient world
might have sounded like

by resurrecting the voices
of ancient Scandinavia.

Most people visit
museums to learn about history.

For one curious student,
her trip made history.

In November 2017, an
Italian doctoral student

by the name of
Vittoria Dall'Armellina

takes a day trip to a
little island around Venice

called San Lazzaro degli Armeni.

She wants to visit
the museum there,

which is attached
to the monastery.

And as she travels
through the museum,

in one of the cases, she
discovers an old sword.

The label dates it
to the Middle Ages,

but to Vittoria, who
studies archeology,

this doesn't add up.

The size and shape look
nothing like any medieval sword

she's ever studied.

The sword itself is
simple.

There's no engravings.

There's no inscriptions.

And unfortunately, there's
also no signs of wear.

Any signs of how this
sword would've been used

are long gone.

This sword reminds
her of another sword

found in one of the world's
oldest known cities, Arslantepe,

in Turkey.

Swords found there are
the oldest metal weapons

ever discovered,

with some dating
back to 3000 BC.

Intrigued, Vittoria
and a team of researchers

dig into the sword's history.

Vittoria goes through
museum records

and shipping logs,

and she learns that this
sword was actually excavated

nearly 150 years ago

from the site of Kavak
in Eastern Turkey.

From there, the sword
passes through several hands,

including an Armenian
civil engineer,

who passes it to a
monk from San Lazzaro.

When that monk dies,

the monastery inherits
all of his property,

including the mysterious sword.

When the team
does a chemical analysis

of the weapon,

it reveals something shocking.

Testing shows that
this blade was made out

of a combination of
copper and arsenic,

which was used long
before tin came to be used

in bronze making.

In other words,
this sword itself

is from earlier
than the Bronze Age.

Believed to be
one of the oldest swords

ever discovered,

it now resides in the
San Lazzaro monastery,

preserved and studied
as a priceless link

to the world's
earliest warriors.

This sword, once a
forgotten artifact,

mislabeled in a Venetian museum,

shows that sometimes all
it takes is a keen eye

like Vittoria's

to discover something
truly special.

It took a sharp eye
to spot that sword,

but our next discovery clearly

has trouble written all over it.

August 2023,

the ground crew at Queen
Kossamak High School in Cambodia

is sweating under the hot sun.

They're clearing some land to
expand the school's garden.

As the workers dig,

one of the shovels

hits something
hard and metallic.

Initially, he doesn't
think much of it.

He assumes it's
just an old pipe.

But as he works to clear
it away, he freezes,

a chill running down his spine,

because it's not a pipe,

it looks more like a grenade.

Panic sets in,

and the school is immediately
evacuated.

The authorities
show up, examine it,

and confirm the worst,

it is a grenade.

As they continue
to excavate the site,

they find that it's not
just a few hand grenades,

they have uncovered thousands

of explosives.

They're rusty, but
they're still live,

and they're still dangerous.

How did this quiet
school yard become a minefield?

The answer lies in a turbulent
chapter of Cambodia's past.

From 1967 to
1975,

the country was torn apart
by a violent civil war.

At the same time,
the war in Vietnam

reached a critical pitch.

Cambodia is eventually
dragged into the conflict

with infiltration routes
bringing weapons of war

from North Vietnam through
Cambodia into South Vietnam

on what was eventually
called the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

Controversially, the US
began bombing campaigns

and ground incursions

targeting suspected
supply routes.

But many of the
explosives from the conflict

failed to detonate.

Since the war
ended,

unexploded ordnance has
claimed 20,000 lives

and maimed 45,000 more.

The fighting may have ended,
but clearly the danger didn't.

Over the next few
decades,

the violence of the recent past

became a distant memory.

By the late 1980s, the
site had become a school,

and it was believed

that the grounds were
cleared of explosives.

But that turned out
not to be the case.

After the incident,

government officials deploy
the remnants of war team

to scour the 10 acres
of the school ground.

After a week of
thorough digging,

they remove over 2000
pieces of live ordnance

and then declare
the ground safe.

For this
school, the danger's gone.

But across Cambodia,

thousands more people
are still at risk.

After the grounds have
been cleared of explosives,

the Cambodian government
makes a bold pledge

to clear every existing landmine

and piece of
unexploded ordnance,

a task they hope to
accomplish by 2030.

It's a massive effort

that will be helped by
international partners

like Japan and
the United States.

And if it succeeds,

Cambodia will be the first
country in Southeast Asia

to wipe the slate clean.

It looked like just
another day in the field

until a flash of metal
revealed a surprising chapter

in Chinese history.

In spring of 1929,

a farmer by the
name of Yan Daocheng

is digging an irrigation
ditch near his field.

And all of a sudden, he
strikes something hard.

The soil soon gives
way to something unexpected.

It's old, it's odd looking,

it's green and fairly intricate.

It's also clearly handmade.

But he has no idea what this is.

He keeps digging and
unearthing more amazing items.

Bronze implements,
strange precision tools,

each one more wondrous
than the next.

It's a
treasure trove of relics,

but experts have no idea
which dynasty they come from.

Then in 1934, archeologist
David Crockett Graham

starts a formal dig in the area.

They uncovered
temples, bronze workshops,

the remains of sacrificial pits.

It seems that this site extended
over several square miles.

These aren't just artifacts,
this is an entire civilization.

The most striking finds
are the bronze masks.

They are giant with
large bulging eyes

and these massive ears
that look like wings.

To Graham
and his team,

the masks suggest
something bigger.

The masks' strange,
otherworldly features

seem to elicit ancient texts

talking of a long lost
kingdom called Shu.

From the 10th until
around the 4th century BC,

this kingdom
absolutely flourished.

It was a pinnacle
of civilization.

They were masters of
bronze, ritual, and symbolism,

and they were also
warrior priests.

But then it ended very suddenly.

Historical records are scarce,

and there's really
not a clear idea

of what exactly happened.

As the
excavation goes on,

the evidence continues to mount.

They keep finding
more and more artifacts.

Bronze trees, golden
scepters, ornate jade stones.

And all these artifacts are
covered in patterns and motifs

not found anywhere
else in Chinese art.

Altogether, they unearthed
13,000 artifacts.

But the
discoveries don't stop there.

Years later, the site
reveals even more.

In 2021, to
everyone's surprise,

an archeologist named Teng Fei

uncovers six more pits

at Sanxingdui.

Soon, they're
unearthing gold masks

and towering bronze statues
alongside other relics,

which suggests that
the Shu civilization

was far greater and richer
than previously thought.

The significance
and scale of the finds

also challenges historians
to rethink long held ideas

about how Chinese
civilization began.

For decades,

scholars believed that
Chinese civilization began

in a single cradle

along the Yellow River
basin in the north.

But Fei's discovery
challenges that idea,

pointing to multiple
independent cultures

rising at the same
time throughout China.

In the end, Sanxingdui
turns out to be a window

into a lost civilization
far more complex

than we might've
imagined before.

And it's all because
a farmer one day

made an accidental
swing of his shovel.

Some treasures
are buried in the soil,

others mysteriously
sink into the sea,

like this next story.

In 2015,

Tzvika Feuer joins a group
of amateur scuba divers

celebrating a friend's birthday

with an adventurous dive off
the coast of Caesarea, Israel.

As they explore the
Mediterranean seabed,

something catches his eye.

He sees a glint on
the ocean floor.

At first, he thinks
maybe it's trash.

But when he looks closer,

suddenly

he sees a ton of gold coins
just sitting in the sand.

Tzvika is unsure what to
do,

so he tells the
diving club director,

and he reports it to the
Israel Antiquities Authority,

or the IAA.

The IAA dispatches
a professional dive team

to examine the site,

and what they find
shocks everyone.

Over the course of a
few days,

these divers managed
to find a collection

of about 2000 gold coins.

It is the largest cash of gold
coins ever found in Israel.

The coins
also offer up more clues

about where they might be from.

Some of the coins
are stamped with names,

Caliphs Al-Hakim and Al-Zahir,

who were rulers
in the Middle East

in the early 11th century.

In other words,

the names that are
stamped into these coins

show that the coins are
over a thousand years old.

These Arabic
inscriptions also include dates

and mint marks

from the Fatimid Caliphate,

the dominant power in North
Africa and the Mediterranean

in the 11th century.

Several were minted near
Caesarea,

a key Fatimid port.

The connection of
these coins to Caesarea

suggests maybe a couple
of different things.

Maybe it was a vessel

that was carrying taxes
back to Egypt and it sunk.

Another possibility
was that these coins

were meant to pay wages
at the military garrison,

and for whatever
reason, never made it.

While we may never
know what the hoard was for,

unfortunately, for Tzvika,
it's not finders keepers.

Under Israeli law,

all antiquities that are
discovered

belong to the state.

And just in case the
Navy divers didn't find

every last loose coin,

they tightened marine patrols

to make sure no looters
were able to go down

and find anything else.

More coins may yet be found,

but in the meantime,
the ones that we have

bear witness to the lost
centuries of Caesarea.

When a married couple
in Texas goes for a walk,

they're expecting a nice
stroll in the fresh air.

What they find instead
sparks a heated debate.

In 1936, just outside
of London, Texas,

Max Hahn and his wife, Emma,

are going for a hike
along Red Creek.

And as they hike along, they
notice something strange,

a wooden shaft protruding
out of a hunk of stone.

Curious, they lug the odd
rock back home and set it aside.

It sits for years gathering
dust as a conversation piece

and a backyard mystery.

Again, it's a wooden
stick sticking out of a rock.

Everybody's curious
what's inside.

So finally, one day, a family
member convinces Max and Emma

to crack this stone open.

And what they find

shocks them.

It's a forged iron
hammer

perfectly encased
within solid stone.

Now, the Hahns must have lived
a pretty extraordinary life,

'cause they don't think
that's very interesting,

and they just kind of leave
it on their mantelpiece,

collecting dust for years.

Then, in
the early 1980s,

a minister buys the hammer

and decides to have it tested.

He commissions
elemental analysis,

and the results are, the
hammer is made from 96.6% iron,

2.6% chlorine, and 0.74% sulfur.

This is a strange alloy

that resists rust better
than most 19th-century iron.

If the alloy is
strange,

the results for the
composition of the stone

are unbelievable.

Scientists suggest that
this is Ordovician rock,

which would make
this stone ancient,

hundreds of millions
of years old.

So how does
a modern-looking tool

end up inside a
prehistoric rock?

Naturally, a lot of
ideas start bubbling up.

Some people think this is
groundbreaking, monumental,

perhaps it's evidence of
a ancient civilization

that was working
with these tools,

that was somehow lost to time.

Others argue that
the hammer's design

is nearly identical to other
19th-century mining tools,

so this has to be
something much more modern.

They believe that the
minerals hardened around it

much more recently

during a rare natural process,

which could explain why
the seemingly ancient rock

is actually more modern.

However, the
hammer's wooden handle,

well, that's a little
bit harder to explain.

I mean, it's petrified.

And while wood petrification
doesn't take place

over millions of years,

it sure does take longer
than a few decades.

Because the artifact
has not been subjected

to any peer-reviewed
scientific analysis,

the controversy persists.

To believers,

the hammer is a relic that
rewrites history.

To skeptics, it's a rare but
natural geological illusion.

Whatever the truth may be,

the line between
myth and history

isn't always very easy to draw.

Whether it's a pair of iron
horses on the ocean floor,

one of the oldest
swords ever found,

or a bronze cat hiding
centuries of secrets,

when it comes to heavy metal,

musics got nothing on
these amazing discoveries.

I'm Danny Trejo.

Thanks for watching
"Mysteries Unearthed."