Docuseries lifting the veil on the global crime wave that is destroying the world's cultural heritage and lining the bank vaults of some of the worst criminals on the planet.

Best-selling author Brad Meltzer decodes ordinary objects in both the modern world and history – objects that contain secret messages, steeped in codes and symbols.

Some of the strangest and deadliest weapons ever built were the prototypes of the modern gun. Was a simple bamboo tube the world's first hand gun? Plus, hidden in an ancient manuscript lies a secret recipe for ancient tracer fire – but does it work?