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Look at this place.

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Oh my God.

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What is this?

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Whatever it is, it's big.

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That's huge.

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Does anybody hear heartbeat?

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Listen, can you hear it?

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He may not be a household name in the West,

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but Suleiman the Magnificent is perhaps the most beloved leader that the East has ever known.

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In the 16th century, Suleiman ruled the Ottoman Empire for a staggering 46 years,

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and he very nearly conquered all of Europe.

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In 1566, Suleiman died during a battle in Hungary.

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His body was carried back to his capital of Istanbul,

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but not before a strange ritual was performed.

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His heart was removed, placed in a golden container and buried beneath his command tent.

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His followers claimed the heart is a magical and mystical relic.

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Legend says the heart continues to beat, waiting to be reunited with its host.

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An entire town, called Turbek, was built over the burial site to honor the Sultan.

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But less than a century later, invaders wiped it off the face of the earth,

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and the location of Suleiman's heart vanished with it.

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With the 450th anniversary of Suleiman's death fast approaching,

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interest in the lost city, the heart, and the golden box buried there has reached a fever pitch.

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The container alone could be worth millions.

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And there's been a break in the case.

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Archaeologists have recently uncovered long lost documents that may point to the heart's location.

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So I'm beating a path to where east meets west.

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I'll follow the clues and retrace the legend with one goal in mind, to win the Sultan's heart.

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My name is Josh Gates.

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With a degree in archaeology and a passion for exploration,

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I have a tendency to end up in some very strange situations.

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God, lord have!

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My travels have taken me to the ends of the earth, as I investigate the greatest legends in history.

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We're good to try, let's go.

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This is Expedition Unknown.

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I begin my hunt for the Sultan's heart in his capital city of Istanbul.

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Once the center of the Christian world, and later the core of Suleiman's Ottoman Empire.

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It is a city straddling two continents, and the crossroad of the ancient and modern worlds.

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Though very much a part of the 21st century, Istanbul has lived past lives as Byzantium and Constantinople.

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The Sultan's top copy palace still shines as if ready for a new king.

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The soaring blue mosque sends out the call to prayer as it has for hundreds of years.

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Yet for some reason, Istanbul feels small to me.

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This is Miniaturk, an inexplicable attraction which takes famous Turkish landmarks and makes them tiny.

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Everything here is miniaturized. Trains, airplanes, and this guy's dignity.

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People are coming to Istanbul visiting fake miniature versions of real landmarks.

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And I am one of those people.

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Why? Who cares? I can see every important site in Istanbul in ten minutes flat, and pretend I'm Godzilla at the same time.

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Having taken in the small sites, I'm ready to tackle a big mystery.

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Though dead for almost 450 years, Suleiman the Magnificent doesn't seem like a figure of the past.

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The truth is, he's one of the most beloved leaders in Islamic history.

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There is even a hit Turkish TV show about him called Magnificent Century.

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It's sort of like the West Wing except with less Rob Lowe and more beheadings.

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To find out why Suleiman was such a rock star and why there's such a frenzy over his missing and magical heart,

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I'm going to meet with an expert to reach him on cutting through Istanbul's Grand Bazaar.

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When it comes to malls, it's pretty tough to beat the Grand Bazaar.

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For more than 500 years, this has been the place to shop in Istanbul.

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More than 3,000 vendors selling just about every item imaginable.

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Oh, there's a tiny woman living in there.

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Totally unexpected.

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As happens a lot here, someone randomly offers me a cup of Turkish tea.

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Not sure what type this is, but I will say that it tastes a little stiff.

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Let me help you to spend your money.

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Sure, okay.

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This is almost certainly going to break something in here.

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So this is Tiger Woods.

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That smells like a lot of bad choices.

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After winding through seemingly endless tunnels, I emerge back onto the open streets.

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So the search for Suleiman's missing heart is like a historic CSI cold case.

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And like any good detective story, you have to follow the body.

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And in this case, we can do that because Suleiman is actually entombed right here in Istanbul.

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Suleiman's body, minus one blood pumping muscle from the sternal area,

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is buried at an Istanbul mosque that bears his name.

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It's an understated affair.

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Beneath the towering minarets, I link up with noted history professor Gunhan Boreci

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to better understand the Sultan and the power of his missing heart.

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Suleiman the Magnificent.

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This is a big character in Ottoman history.

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Yes, he's a big one.

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And he's really presiding over the height of the empire.

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How was he remembered in Turkey today?

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Well, first of all, he is remembered as one of the greatest sultans of Ottoman history.

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Second as a great ruler in world history who had achieved and left behind so much.

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Suleiman was the longest ruling Sultan in Islamic history.

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Under his nearly 50 year reign, art, law and culture flourished.

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He was even an accomplished poet.

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But he was also a brutal military genius with a very big hat.

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By the year 1385, the Ottoman Empire has reshaped the map of the world,

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taking more than half of Europe under their control.

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And Suleiman wants more.

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Suleiman is a guy with real global ambition, right?

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Suleiman, yeah, wanted to take the whole chessboard, yes, yes.

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And he almost did.

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In 1566, Suleiman's army is pushing west toward Vienna.

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If he can take this strategic city, he will likely take all of Europe

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and snuff out Christianity behind him.

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Standing in his way, however, is a fortress in the small Hungarian town of Sigitbar.

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Suleiman thinks it will be an easy battle. He's wrong.

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He dies of old age in his command tent before the fighting ends.

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Why is his heart removed?

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He's far away from home, from his eternal resting place, so his body had to be preserved.

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In order to preserve the body, you have to remove all the organs.

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Of course, the heart is removed, and the heart should be having left in Hungary.

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The Sultan's body is embalmed, and his heart buried underneath the tent in a lavish gold box.

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In time, the body is moved back to Istanbul, but the heart is left behind.

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Nearby, we enter the mausoleum of Suleiman the Magnificent.

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So this is it?

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This is where he's buried?

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Wow, the final resting place of Suleiman, or most of him.

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The tomb is stunning, but technically incomplete.

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It's missing one very mysterious heart.

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According to local tradition, the heart is more than just an organ.

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It's a divine relic with the power of the Sultan himself.

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But people believed that, you know, he was the shadow of God.

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He's representing the justice, you know, of that divine power on earth.

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So in terms of this mystery of what became of the Sultan's heart, what do you think the next step is?

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There is a team of experts, archaeologists, historians from Hungary, our colleagues,

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and also a Turkish team are looking, you know, for his heart.

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So that's your best bet, you know, go to Hungary and talk to our friends, colleagues there.

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Two nations that haven't historically been very close allies have come together to try to recover the heart.

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So to join the hunt, I'm going to have to leave Suleiman's capital and head to the country where he died.

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It's a quick trip over the Balkans to Budapest, and when I get off the plane, I'm hungry.

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Sorry, wait, I'm in Hungary.

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Budapest was officially formed in 1873, but its roots run much deeper.

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It's an easy city to navigate with historic cobblestone streets and affordable public transportation.

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Or free if you know where to sit.

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Today we think of Budapest as one of the real gems of Eastern Europe.

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This graceful old city filled with stunning churches, beautiful buildings all shouldering the Danube River,

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but things haven't always been so peaceful here.

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Just about every army that's been in the neighborhood has taken a swing at this place, including Suleiman the Magnificent,

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who in 1541 occupied the city and made it part of the Ottoman Empire for the next hundred and fifty years.

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A few miles outside the city, I've arranged to meet with a researcher with a new theory about the location of Suleiman's missing ticker

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and its very valuable gold container.

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He's only a short train ride away, though it turns out everything on this train is short.

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Hello, how are you?

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Here?

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Here, thank you, very young conductor.

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Turns out this is the Geyer-McVashit, or Children's Railway, which is run entirely by kids aged 10 to 14.

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I am officially in a Wes Anderson movie.

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Are you enjoying the train ride?

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Yes, it's very pleasant, thank you.

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Running since 1948, it was designed specifically for youngsters to learn how to run and manage trains.

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How long have you been working for the railroad?

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One whole year.

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A year? Pretty good pay?

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There is no paying, it's a volunteer.

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We do it because we like it.

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And how long is your shift?

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Twelve hours.

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Twelve hour shift with no pay?

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I believe that's called child labor.

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Something about that doesn't seem right.

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My short ride on the Liability Limited ends in the center of Buda Castle, where I meet with Zoltan Heji,

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a conservationist who thinks the Sultan's heart was taken from its burial site and brought here to Budapest.

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So I understand that you are a guy who knows a lot about what's underneath Budapest.

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Underneath there is a mystic and dark world, tunnels, corridors and chambers, approximately two miles altogether.

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More than two miles apart?

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Yes, yes, yes.

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Tunnels beneath Budapest are older than the city itself, and when Suleiman was controlling the city, the passages were used to store precious items.

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After Suleiman's death, his body was moved back to Istanbul, but some believe that his heart and its golden chest were stashed beneath Budapest.

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Have all the tunnels been mapped and explored?

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Not, absolutely not.

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People believe that in these tunnel systems there are great valuable objects and that Suleiman's heart in his golden container could be hidden here, yeah?

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I think so.

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Maybe they hide it in the cellars or in the bells.

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Is it possible to see what's down there?

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We just go down.

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Oh, okay.

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That's called a manhole.

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Zoltan has exclusive access to a sealed off part of the tunnel system, leading to never before excavated chambers.

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So we waste no time in strapping on our repelling gear and preparing for our descent.

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Oh my God.

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I'm in the nation of Hungary on a mission to find a golden box containing the sacred heart of a powerful Sultan.

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The priceless and some say magical relic has been missing for hundreds of years, and one theory is that it ended up beneath the streets of Budapest.

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Explorer Zoltan Heggy is leading me on a mission down into the city's underground cave system.

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Oh my God. Holy s***.

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That's way deeper than I thought.

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Who goes first?

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I'll be with the first.

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That's the right answer. Good choice.

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Thank you.

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If I'm not right behind you, I'm just over at that pub.

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Okay, I'll just be right down then.

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Should I come down this pit of death?

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Hi, how are you folks doing tonight?

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Hello. Good to see you.

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Oh man.

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Okay.

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Coming down?

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Oh God.

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Why do I do this?

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I'm down.

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This is incredible down here.

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These tunnels wind for more than two miles.

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Some passages are natural caves.

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Others chiseled out over the centuries.

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But one thing is clear, none of it was built to code.

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Watch your step here.

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This is not a good sign.

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The tunnels show a long timeline of habitation.

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Some residents were prehistoric.

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So that is a mammoth tooth.

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The tooth?

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Yes.

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There?

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Yes.

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Wow. Some were from the Middle Ages.

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Oh my God.

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Yes, they are really human bones.

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And other occupiers were here more recently.

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In these chambers, the German soldier was here during the Second World War.

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That was the telephone center for them.

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Wow. So cool.

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I can't believe how many different tunnels there are.

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Huge room.

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Yes.

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So look at this little chamber.

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Whoa.

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It is in this area that Zoltan believes the Sultan's army may have camped

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and buried his heart in the cavern floor.

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Just look at these chambers.

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The ground is very soft here.

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It is very easy to bury things here.

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Alright, let's hit it.

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To arm ourselves with the best chance of finding the golden box,

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he brings out metal detectors.

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And together, we carefully search the chamber.

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Wow.

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Okay, hold on something here.

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That's a nail.

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Okay.

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Nobody said it was going to be easy.

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Hey man, I got something over here.

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I got a big hit here.

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Should be something here.

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What is that?

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What is that?

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Here look.

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A ball.

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It's heavy.

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Lead?

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A masquered ball.

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That is so neat.

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Yeah, it's very unique.

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This cave is its own treasure box of history.

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At least, yeah.

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And to discover a bullet that's hundreds of years old is an amazing reward.

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You are a real treasure hunter.

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Oh, I got very lucky.

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But this isn't the artifact that we're looking for.

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Congratulations, man.

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Thank you.

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And despite another few hours scanning these dank tunnels,

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the Sultan's heart remains at large.

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And we have to call it a night.

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New day, new lead.

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With no sign of the heart under Budapest,

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the most likely bet is that the heart is right where it was originally buried,

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under the Sultan's command tent.

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And I've learned that a historian at the National Archives

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may have cracked the code on its forgotten location.

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I grab a set of wheels and head for the city center.

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Even by expedition unknown standards,

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my whip is a little unusual.

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This is a two-stroke 350cc Valorax.

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It is a Czechoslovakian made.

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I'm going to use the word vehicle pretty loosely.

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It's three wheels, canvas, some tubing, an engine,

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and a brake pedal, though it doesn't appear to be attached to anything.

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I don't know if this is a transsignal or an ejector seat.

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Transsignal.

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This is the perfect vehicle if you want to feel like you're in a car,

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but have all the safety features in a circus cannon.

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Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop!

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Stop your butt!

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At the National Archives of Hungary,

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I meet Matej Kitanic, the archivist who may have just made

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a major breakthrough in the case.

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Oh my God.

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Wow, that's a lot of paper.

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This building has 16 million pages of material about Hungary

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from the Romans, Ottomans, Mongolians, and Soviets.

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Wow, okay. How do these materials help us

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with the search for Suleiman's heart?

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We've recently found a dog that's been found

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in the Suleiman's heart.

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We've recently found documents and a map that may identify the spot

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where the Sultan's command attempt was located.

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We may have just found the key to recovering the Sultan's heart.

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At the National Archives of Hungary,

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a researcher is about to show me newly discovered documents

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that could point to the location of Suleiman the Magnificent's missing heart.

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All of these documents I have here were just recently found.

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So what do we have?

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This is from 1692.

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There's a lot of information about the location of Turbek written in here.

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A place known as Turbek has long been considered critical

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to the search for the Sultan's heart.

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After the Sultan died in his tent at the Battle of Sigurdvar,

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his heart was buried in the ground.

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Then, a small pilgrimage town called Turbek

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sprung up on top of the grave.

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It was a shrine to worship the divine heart.

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There's just one problem.

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A hundred years later, crusaders wiped Turbek off the face of the earth.

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Its location has been lost ever since.

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And where did this manuscript come from?

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Believe it or not, it was hidden behind a bookshelf of a monastery in Sigurdvar.

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Someone just found this behind a bookshelf?

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That's crazy.

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That's like something out of the Da Vinci Code.

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This is an actual eyewitness description of where Turbek and the tomb were located.

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Where does it say Turbek is?

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This details the location of a vineyard on a hill

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about an hour's walk from the fortress in Sigurdvar.

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This is where Suleyman was buried.

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So the vineyard in this hill, this is the location of the town?

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Yes.

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This is what we would call a smoking gun.

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This could really crack this thing wide open.

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Mate has more than a description, though.

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He's also uncovered a one-of-a-kind 17th century blueprint of the city.

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This is one of the most exciting finds we've ever made.

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A parchment from 1664.

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This is the only proper drawing of Turbek that exists.

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You can see the perimeter of the town and the buildings inside of it.

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That black circle there is the exact spot where they buried Suleyman.

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So if you know where Turbek is and you could match it to this map, you could find the heart.

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This could be it.

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And the Hungarian government has wasted no time in dispatching archaeologists

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to find the sultan's heart at the site of his last stand.

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Speaking of hearts, mine is pounding as I hop a train bound for the excavation.

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I board the Danube Express, a stately old train that carries me in style

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140 miles south of Budapest to the very small town of Sigetbar.

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I can say this, I find the Sultan's heart.

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Because I'm never getting off this train.

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After taking a much needed break from roughing it, we pull into the station.

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This ancient city is rich in monuments and memories of the historic siege that unfolded here in 1566.

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And the people are considered the friendliest in Europe.

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Or they would be if I could ever find one of them.

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This town has no people in it.

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Literally I can't find one person.

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Hello?

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Looking for a nice quiet place to retire?

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May I recommend Sigetbar?

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No, but the only one here.

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It's just the two of us.

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450 years ago, this was the site of one of the most pivotal battles in European history.

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This is where not only did Suleiman the Magnificent die,

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this was the end of the Golden Age of the Ottoman Empire,

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but it prevented the Ottomans from moving forward into Hungary and possibly Western Europe.

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This has been referred to as the battle that saved Western civilization.

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But all armies march on their stomachs and mine is rumbling.

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What can I say, the tea and scones aboard the train didn't quite cut it.

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So before meeting with the archaeologists, I find a cafe where I can grab a real bite.

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Big piping hot bowl of goulash.

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Here we go.

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This is of course one of these signature dishes here in Hungary.

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This is what shepherds would eat.

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It comes from an old Norse word meaning whatever you've got cook it.

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Mmm, it's so good.

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I have no idea what I'm chewing.

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But it's delicious.

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And that's kind of the beauty of goulash.

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You don't have to be confused with goulashes, which is a soup out of two rubber boots.

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It's a different dish.

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Down the road from the seemingly abandoned town square,

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I finally come upon the reason for this entire search, the catalyst for Suleiman's death.

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The Fortress of Sigetvar.

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This stronghold was among the last things that the sultan ever saw.

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As for me, I'm hoping the inside this castle is the key to finding his heart.

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I'm on the trail of one of the most sought after and strange relics in history.

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The long lost heart of the sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.

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My journey has led me here to the fortress at Sigetvar Hungary,

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site of the battle that became the sultan's last stand.

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So this is it, this is the fortress.

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Yeah, that's where it all happened.

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Using newly discovered documents from the archives,

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archaeologist Gabor Bertak has been excavating the fortress and surrounding areas

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in an effort to locate Suleiman's camp.

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Would it have looked like this in Suleiman's time?

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Well, there was a bridge originally, which was partly destroyed during the siege of course,

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and also there was a big moat.

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So a pretty formidable place, tough place to take.

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It was tough.

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Yeah.

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Suleiman is headed to Vienna with aspirations to take over all of Europe.

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But he has to get past this fortress in Sigetvar.

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On paper, it's an easy win.

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Suleiman's 100,000 man army versus a Hungarian force of only 2,300,

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led by Croatian general Nicola Zerini.

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But to the sultan's horror, the determined Hungarians hold back the Turks for more than a month.

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Was anybody left alive in the end?

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Only handful of people.

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There was a final charge out of the castle, and that's where the remaining people died.

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The battle is nothing short of a bloodbath.

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Zerini and most of the Hungarian men decimate the sultan's army.

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But in the end, they are overrun.

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And when did Suleiman die during the siege?

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Right towards the end.

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Right towards the end?

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Yeah.

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And so then Suleiman's forces have the castle, they control it,

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and they start building projects in here?

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Well, one of the most important buildings that we had sources on is Mosque.

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To commemorate the great sultan who died here.

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The stone mosque was built in 1568.

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It is one of the only original buildings in the area that has survived over the years.

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Wow, so what is going on here?

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Currently, Gabor is leading a dig right next to it,

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looking for Ottoman artifacts in an effort to narrow the search for the sultan's heart.

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We have one spot over there where we found lots of weapons.

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One of the most significant finds is a cannonball.

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Oh, man, that is heavy.

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This cannonball, though, is from Ottoman period.

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Yep.

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So this might have been used in the siege.

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It's could have been fired by the sultan's army.

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In terms of the attack here,

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Suleiman's army would have had some pretty fierce weaponry, right?

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The most important tool they used was not a weapon.

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They used their superiority in numbers.

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The key is to figure out where the sultan positioned his command tent outside the fort.

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By examining which side of the structure was being attacked,

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Gabor may be able to get a bearing on the sultan's position.

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Metal detector?

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Metal detectors help pinpoint weapons used in the siege.

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We both scour the site, carefully sweeping over the recently dug trenches.

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Metal detector?

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Got something!

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Come here, check it out.

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Okay, let's check it.

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I should have the location.

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Click right here?

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Yeah.

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Oh my god, this looks like Battle X or...

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Oh my god.

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This is something that could actually have been used in Suleiman's siege.

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Yeah?

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That is so wild.

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So this is probably four or five hundred years old.

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Yes, it is.

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Have you found any other axes in this pit?

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No, not axes.

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This is the coolest find in the dig so far.

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Yeah?

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Yeah.

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Look at that!

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I am so happy to have been here for it.

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Thank you so much, man.

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Really, that is incredible.

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You're welcome.

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To think that for hundreds of years this thing is hidden,

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and then to be able to be the next person who holds it.

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Yeah.

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You know, how cool is that?

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And thank you so much for letting me keep this.

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Why are you laughing?

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I'm the guy holding the axe.

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I don't know why you're dictating terms here.

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Gabor's work is literally unearthing history,

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and it's given him an idea of which direction the Sultan's army approached from.

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But in terms of the most probable place that the heart could be hiding,

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is where you think?

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Outside the walls.

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Yeah, outside the walls.

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On the hill to the east.

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That's the most plausible.

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To know for sure, though,

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we've got to get a look at the entire battlefield.

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At a nearby airport,

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we squeeze into a small airplane to continue the search.

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There is the fortress.

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Yeah, there it is.

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Okay, so what do we know about where Suleiman's camp was outside the fort?

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Because originally they were closer to the castle.

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So there were some shots coming out of the castle that landed here,

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the Sultan's tent.

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And then they disappeared.

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And then they disappeared.

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And then they disappeared.

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So the castle that landed here, the Sultan's tent.

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And then they decided to move it back to a place so the Sultan could see

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the progress of the siege, but from the same distance.

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The documents from the archive in Budapest

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reveal several critical clues about the location of Turbek,

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the town built directly above Suleiman's buried heart.

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It's been revealed that Turbek is four kilometers from the fortress,

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which gives us a radius to fly over.

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And Gabor's excavation has confirmed that it's likely northeast.

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So we adjust course to investigate.

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The document also says Turbek was on a hill and next to a vineyard.

492
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:56,000
Now that we can see the whole stage, let's talk about where that heart could be.

493
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,000
If you look beyond, did you see this hilly area?

494
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:00,000
Yes.

495
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,000
Oh, yeah, there it is.

496
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:07,000
So that could be Turbek.

497
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,000
And it is on a hill.

498
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,000
And you've got vineyards on the slopes.

499
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:16,000
Somewhere down there, maybe, is the heart of Suleiman.

500
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,000
This is where it all happened.

501
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,000
Yeah, that's where it all happened.

502
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:23,000
Gabor isn't the only one to suss this out.

503
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,000
In fact, he has colleagues searching for the ruins of Turbek

504
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,000
in the area at this very moment.

505
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:33,000
Back on the ground, I'm anxious to head for the hills where Gabor's associates

506
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,000
are investigating these latest developments.

507
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:40,000
Gabor tells me I can borrow an ATV from the fortress to help navigate up to the site.

508
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:44,000
As I speed through the hills, there's only one thing going through my mind.

509
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:48,000
I think these guys are about to make a major discovery.

510
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,000
I'm on my way to a vineyard near the fortress at Sigitbar Hungry,

511
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:09,000
which may be the location of the lost town of Turbek and the sultan Suleiman's lost heart.

512
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:13,000
All of the evidence is really pointing to this hill outside of Sigitbar.

513
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,000
It's the right distance from the fortress.

514
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:16,000
It's the right geography.

515
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:20,000
This is the most probable place to find Suleiman's camp.

516
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,000
And if we find the camp, we find the heart.

517
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:30,000
Hello!

518
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:31,000
Hello!

519
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:32,000
How are you? I'm Josh.

520
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:33,000
Norbert.

521
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:34,000
Norbert, hello.

522
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:35,000
Hi, I'm Erika. I'm Matthew.

523
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:36,000
Erika?

524
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:37,000
Welcome to the site.

525
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:38,000
Thank you very much.

526
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,000
This is not what most archaeological sites look like.

527
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:41,000
This is beautiful up here.

528
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:42,000
It is a vineyard.

529
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:43,000
Uh-huh.

530
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,000
Which was a vineyard in the Merriva times also.

531
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:46,000
Yeah, it's stunning.

532
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:47,000
So, give me a lay of the land here.

533
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:48,000
Show me the site.

534
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:49,000
Come on.

535
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:50,000
Sure.

536
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:53,000
This is actually a functioning vineyard behind the home of a local winemaker.

537
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:57,000
He's kind enough to let the team show me what they believe is hiding in his backyard.

538
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:01,000
So, I think for me the first question is why here?

539
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:04,000
Why not over on that guy's property?

540
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:05,000
Or why not over there?

541
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:06,000
Why right here?

542
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:13,000
We are 4.2 kilometers from the castle, one whole walk, and the northeastern direction.

543
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,000
So, we are exactly the right place.

544
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:22,000
And so, once you identified this area as being really promising, what was your next step?

545
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,000
We had some measure of physical examinations underground.

546
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,000
And what did you find under the ground?

547
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:28,000
Walls.

548
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:29,000
Walls.

549
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:34,000
Using advanced ground penetrating radar, or GPR, they're finding evidence of structures

550
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:39,000
underneath the surface that may be the town of Turbeck that was built over the sultan's burial.

551
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:44,000
So, here you can see clearly the walls which we found under the ground.

552
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:45,000
Right.

553
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:46,000
And if you compare this to now.

554
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,000
Ah, yes, I've seen this map.

555
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,000
I saw the original of this back in Budapest.

556
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:55,000
And you can see that rectangular building maybe here, which was the mosque and the tomb.

557
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,000
It does line up.

558
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,000
That's pretty astonishing.

559
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,000
It looks like it could be that corner.

560
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:02,000
This is really, really compelling.

561
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:06,000
So, you may have found not just Turbeck, but the actual tomb itself.

562
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,000
And how confident are you that this is it?

563
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:11,000
I can say 99 percent.

564
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:12,000
Really?

565
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:16,000
I'm convinced that we are a very optimistic, very promising place.

566
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,000
Have you scanned this entire search area?

567
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:19,000
No, of course not.

568
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,000
It is a very huge area.

569
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:27,000
The team agrees to let me join them on their ongoing search to identify exactly where to start digging.

570
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:33,000
In the middle of the vineyard, it suddenly becomes undeniable that these people are onto something.

571
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:34,000
What do you got?

572
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:35,000
Brick fragments.

573
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:36,000
You said brick.

574
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:37,000
And how old do you think these bricks are?

575
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:38,000
These are all common.

576
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,000
You literally just pick this up from the surface.

577
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,000
Here's more brick.

578
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,000
It's incredible this is just laying around here.

579
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,000
There is an otter-masceremic fragment.

580
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,000
With glaze on it still.

581
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:53,000
And just about everything you touch here turns out to be a piece of brick or a piece of ceramic.

582
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,000
I mean literally like, watch, I'm not even looking.

583
00:33:58,000 --> 00:33:59,000
Ceramic.

584
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:02,000
Brick.

585
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,000
This is like the supermarket sweep version of excavation.

586
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,000
This is my kind of archaeology, you just pick things up.

587
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:12,000
I found something, I think.

588
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:13,000
Got something?

589
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,000
Uh-huh.

590
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,000
Shovel, shovel, shovel.

591
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,000
How cool is that?

592
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:34,000
It's super heavy.

593
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:35,000
It's lead, yeah?

594
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:36,000
Lead, it's lead.

595
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:37,000
What is that?

596
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,000
It can be a spike.

597
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,000
So like for attaching something?

598
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,000
Yes, part of a door.

599
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:43,000
Wow, that is so cool.

600
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,000
Two inches below the surface.

601
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,000
Nice job.

602
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:47,000
Thanks.

603
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,000
So where there's a spike there's a door, and where there's a door there's a building.

604
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:51,000
Yes.

605
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:58,000
The ancient spike, the brick, the ceramic, this place is clearly hiding something.

606
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:04,000
So Erica and Norbert fire up the GPR scanner to put some high-tech eyes underneath the ground.

607
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,000
Erica, I feel bad you're doing all the work.

608
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,000
I will be very strong.

609
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:11,000
Okay.

610
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:17,000
Erica insists on piloting the machine, so I find other ways to make the track a bit sweeter.

611
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,000
Sorry, you guys need some help?

612
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:26,000
After scanning row by row in the vineyard, we finally get a sizable hit.

613
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:28,000
Got something?

614
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:29,000
Uh-huh.

615
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,000
This black spot here, what do you think it is?

616
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:33,000
Maybe the wall.

617
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:34,000
Yeah?

618
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,000
It's significant, Ottoman, maybe the tomb.

619
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,000
We could be standing on top of the tomb of Suleiman, right here.

620
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:41,000
Right here?

621
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:42,000
Here?

622
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:43,000
Get a shovel!

623
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:45,000
Why is that funny?

624
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:46,000
Why can't we do that?

625
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:47,000
Because we haven't got permission.

626
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:49,000
We have to wait for the permit.

627
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:50,000
You have to wait.

628
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:51,000
How much longer until you have a permit?

629
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:52,000
One month.

630
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,000
Ah, bureaucracy.

631
00:35:54,000 --> 00:36:00,000
Despite the fact that these two might be on top of a major find, without the paperwork in place, they can't dig large trenches.

632
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,000
But maybe they don't need to.

633
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,000
What are these things?

634
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:07,000
They look like pipes.

635
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,000
It's a sign of a cellar.

636
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:10,000
Oh, you mean like wine cellar?

637
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:11,000
Wine cellar.

638
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,000
And have you gone down in the cellars yet?

639
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,000
Have you excavated in there at all?

640
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,000
We haven't excavated them yet.

641
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,000
And do you think it's possible to get down there?

642
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,000
Let's go and try the owner and let's ask.

643
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,000
Okay, yeah, let's do it for sure.

644
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:28,000
Because whatever this is is right underneath us and that's, you know, five, six feet from that shaft.

645
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,000
I mean, who needs to dig when you've got tunnels?

646
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:37,000
They contact the owner and fortunately, he agrees to let us venture into his wine cellar,

647
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:40,000
a place that could hold mysteries even he doesn't know about.

648
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:54,000
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649
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650
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:07,000
I'm heading down into a wine cellar underneath a vineyard in Sigitvar, Hungary with Professor Norbert Papp and his colleague, Eric Hans,

651
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:15,000
who believe this could be the location of a box that holds the mystical and priceless heart of the Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.

652
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:19,000
In his dark.

653
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:22,000
Oh my God, it must be 20 degrees cooler down here.

654
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,000
I mean, this goes way deeper than I thought it was going to.

655
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,000
How far back does this go?

656
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:34,000
I don't know.

657
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:35,000
I don't know.

658
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:36,000
I don't know.

659
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:37,000
I don't know.

660
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:38,000
I don't know.

661
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:39,000
I don't know.

662
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:40,000
I don't know.

663
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:41,000
I don't know.

664
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:42,000
I don't know.

665
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:43,000
I don't know.

666
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:45,000
There's barrels?

667
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:46,000
Barrels.

668
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,000
Old wine barrels.

669
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,000
How old is this cellar, do you think?

670
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,000
I think 200 years old or older.

671
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,000
Okay, end of the line here, yeah?

672
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:04,000
Is this the ventilation pipe?

673
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:05,000
Ventilation pipe, yes.

674
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,000
Right, so this goes up to the surface.

675
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:09,000
And this is the back wall here.

676
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,000
You can see the tunnel can be seen.

677
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:12,000
The back wall here.

678
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,000
You can see the tunnel continues there too.

679
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:15,000
Let's see what's in here.

680
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,000
Do you have those tools?

681
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:21,000
While the team needs permits to dig archaeological trenches from above,

682
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:25,000
those rules don't apply to the privately owned wine cellar below.

683
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,000
It's a wall, but it's really just soft clay.

684
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,000
It just sort of breaks apart.

685
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:36,000
What's that?

686
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:37,000
Something?

687
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:38,000
Something here?

688
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,000
Oh, something hard.

689
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,000
I don't know what it is.

690
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,000
Whatever it is, it's a big.

691
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:45,000
That's huge.

692
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:51,000
It's definitely not natural.

693
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:52,000
It's all squared off.

694
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:57,000
What is this?

695
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:00,000
Carved.

696
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:01,000
Carved stone.

697
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:02,000
Carved stone.

698
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:03,000
And what's it made from?

699
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:04,000
That's sandstone.

700
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,000
This is part of a wall or part of a building?

701
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,000
A precious building.

702
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,000
Because it's very fine stone, yeah?

703
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:12,000
Yes.

704
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,000
You know, this is carved out to slot into something,

705
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,000
and this would have been used to attach to something, right?

706
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:17,000
Yeah.

707
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,000
Do you think this could be part of the wall in the town?

708
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:20,000
Probably, yes.

709
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:23,000
The main entrance, framed by stones.

710
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,000
There's a hole here.

711
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,000
Erika, what's this for?

712
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,000
Is it a part of a gate, maybe?

713
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:33,000
We could match.

714
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,000
Okay, that's the lead spike, yeah?

715
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,000
Absolutely incredible.

716
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,000
I mean, that's exactly the type of fixture

717
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,000
that would have fit into something like this, right?

718
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:43,000
Yes.

719
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:44,000
Is there any other explanation

720
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,000
for why we would find something like this down here?

721
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,000
No, no, there is no other explanation.

722
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:51,000
It belonged to a big Ottoman building.

723
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,000
Maybe the tomb, maybe...

724
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:54,000
I'm actually kind of speechless.

725
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,000
I mean, forget that there's ceramics up there

726
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,000
that might indicate there's something here.

727
00:39:58,000 --> 00:39:59,000
There is something here.

728
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:00,000
We're touching it.

729
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,000
The Sultan's heart could be right here.

730
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:03,000
It could be right here.

731
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:04,000
Listen, can you hear it?

732
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:05,000
Everyone's...

733
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,000
Everyone listen, very carefully.

734
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:11,000
Is anybody here heartbeat?

735
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:12,000
Mine, my heart.

736
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:13,000
It's mine.

737
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:14,000
I'm excited, it's mine.

738
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:15,000
Excited.

739
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:16,000
Yeah, we've unearthed a piece

740
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,000
of what is almost certainly the lost town of Tervek.

741
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,000
Beyond this point is the unknown.

742
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:22,000
Good luck with the excavation.

743
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,000
Please call me when you break ground.

744
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:25,000
Okay, thank you.

745
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:26,000
I want to come back,

746
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:27,000
and I have a funny feeling

747
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:28,000
that you're going to find a lot more of these.

748
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,000
Hopefully in the shape of a tomb.

749
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:31,000
We hope so.

750
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:32,000
Hey, let's go upstairs and find some wine.

751
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:33,000
Come on.

752
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,000
Many times, the search for historic truth

753
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:37,000
proves impossible.

754
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,000
The trail too cold to follow.

755
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,000
But other times, like today,

756
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:44,000
seasoned detectives are so determined,

757
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,000
passionate, and perhaps lucky enough

758
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,000
to have the puzzle pieces of their case

759
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:50,000
fit neatly together.

760
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:51,000
And these are the facts.

761
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,000
In Hungary, dogged researchers

762
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,000
have uncovered maps and diagrams

763
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,000
that confirm the layout of the solid-state

764
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:58,000
of the site.

765
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,000
In the ruins of the fortress

766
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,000
where he made his last stand,

767
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,000
an archaeologist is reconstructing the battle

768
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,000
one artifact at a time.

769
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:09,000
And in a picturesque vineyard of all places.

770
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:12,000
The rest of the team has found physical clues,

771
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,000
digital fingerprints,

772
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,000
and now a smoking gun.

773
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:17,000
The work isn't done,

774
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,000
and the case technically remains open.

775
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,000
But back in Istanbul,

776
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,000
where a nation and a sultan

777
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,000
have waited patiently for 450 years

778
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,000
to find the remains of the site.

779
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,000
And for 450 years,

780
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,000
the case of the missing heart is,

781
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:32,000
I have no doubt,

782
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,000
about to be solved.

783
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,000
you