
Sydney Fox is a professor and globe-trotting "relic hunter" who looks for ancient artifacts to return to museums and/or the descendants of the original owner. She is aided by her linguistic assistant Nigel and occasionally by her somewhat air-headed secretary Claudia. She often ends up battling rival hunters seeking out artifacts for the money.



Sydney and Nigel head to Nepal to recover Buddha's fabled overflowing alms bowl for villagers who are building a shrine to the original Buddha.
Sydney and Nigel are in Chicago to find Al Capone's gun.
When Sydney's plane crashes, she's asked by a groups of nuns to find the head of another nun, who was decapitated several centuries ago.
Sydney and Nigel head to Larivee, California to find the Pioneer's Bear Flag.
Sydney and Nigel go to Germany to find a lost Elvis Presley guitar.
Sydney, Nigel and rival relic hunter Kurt Reiner attempt to find the lost baseball glove of Jimmy Jonesboro.
Sydney, Nigel and Derek Lloyd go to the Peruvian jungle to look for the Paracelsus scrolls, which contain the formula for turning lead into gold.
Sydney, Nigel and Stewie Harper head to Stockholm, Sweden to find the Runestone of King Jann the First of Norway
Sydney and Nigel are in Milan, Italy to search for Casanova's lost Book of Love
Sydney, Nigel and Claudia visit Athens, Greece to search the minotaur's maze for the legendary golden twine.
Sydney and Nigel head to Dublin, Ireland in search of the the missing crown of the last King of Ireland.
Sydney and Nigel are in Moose Bay, Alaska looking for the white jade sarcophagus of a Chinese Empress.
Sydney and Nigel must beat rival relic hunter Avery Ko to the Pharaoh Thutmose's diamond before it is cut up and sold.
There are tales about a curse—everyone who steals a statue of the Egyptian cat-goddess Mafdet is killed by the goddess. Now, the statue has disappeared.
Sydney and Nigel go to Scotland to find the second ring of the pair of Twining Rings of Calum and Elena
Sydney and Nigel journey to Atlantic City, New Jersey, searching for Hungary's lost, allegedly cursed Royal Sceptre,
Sydney and Nigel travel to France to find the lost stones from Marie Antoinette's Crown.
Sydney and Nigel go to Paris, France after the Sword of Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar.
Sydney and Nigel go to France to look for the lost wedding vows of Josephine Pontoise and Guy de Bourdin, which would prove their heir is the rightful owner of St. Agnes Sur-Loire.
Sydney and Nigel are in Brussels in search of the sacred sundial of Zeus to stop the Vampires
Sydney and Nigel are reunited with Stewie Harper in the search for the Chalice of Truth in France
Sydney and Nigel head to Paris to find a stolen locket so they can clear Sydney's dead grandmother of charges.
Kuba, Africa AD 100: Worshippers of Woote curse his idol to protect it. 2000: Ross Crawford comes to Sydney, because he took the idol and the curse has accelerated his aging.
India, AD 500: A precious dagger is used in human sacrifices to goddess Kali. 2000: Dr. Terrace is in a maximum security prison for killing his assistant. The dagger compelled him and now Sydney must return it to its sheath in India.
On a search for a South American Mochica Indian relic of protection, Nigel and his colleagues get captured by local guerrillas, and it's up to Sydney to save them.
Sydney and Nigel set out to find if the legend of the lost civilization in Africa is actually true.
Sydney reunites with her high school sweetheart to track down a Hawaiian fertility idol in Madagascar.
Romania, 1830: The dying Romani king orders the crown to be hidden. 2000: Sydney receives a deck of rare Tarot cards a dead friend.
The famed Jade Empress is hidden in a valley that will be flooded when the Three Rivers Dam's flood gates are opened. Sydney's dad asks her to come to Hong Kong to find the statue.
Rome, 44 BC: An alchemist creates an impenetrable armor for Caesar. 2000: Sydney and Nigel are on a trip, so Claudia decides to help Sydney's friend Roger to find Caesar's armor.
When two graduate students on the trail of the Haitian Cross of Utu disappear in New Orleans, Sydney and Nigel go down on the bayou to find them.
Sydney, Nigel and billionaire entrepreneur Rod Thorson parachute into the Myanmar jungle to rescue a relic-hunting team hired by Thorson to locate an ancient sacrificial bowl.
Egypt, 1516 BC: Amun II is buried with his crook and flail. London, 2001: Working as consultants for an archeology adventure film, Sydney and Nigel realize the Pharaoh's props are genuine, long thought lost relics.
Sydney gets kidnapped; Nigel, Claudia and Cate have to go through the list of enemies Sydney has made in the past and deduce which of them is responsible.
Claudia realizes that she was Cleopatra's servant in a past life when she experiences a déjà vu while seeing a catalog about an Ancient Egyptian relics exposition.
Mississippi Valley, 1605: Indians lock French explorers into a chamber in which they get disintegrated. 2001: Sydney and her student Adam seek his ancestors' fabled Eyes of Toklamanee, but they are pursued by mysterious gunmen.
Sydney and Nigel are ambushed in Russia. Two weeks later, Sydney wakes up in the house of a man called Tsarlov, who claims to have saved her.
While on a lecture tour with Nigel in Europe, Sydney is contacted by MI-5 because she is the only one who can prevent an impending high-level assassination, according to a prophecy written by Nostradamus.
A friend of Sydney phones to inform her that he's discovered information on the Golden Hawk of Maribor, lost since 1711.
Germania, ca. AD 400: an artifact called Gunther's Scepter is sealed in a vault. Kleine Burgh, 2001: Sydney and Nigel are hired to find the Scepter using a crystal and a stone tablet that were recently discovered.
A model's face is disfigured when she puts on the mask of a French executioner. The only ways to get her beautiful face back are if someone puts on the mask so they will be disfigured, or if the curse is stopped by carrying the mask to the executioner's tomb.
When the British Museum gets Sidney and Nigel to help search at Tudor sites for a ring of king Henry VIII, Nigel is confronted with his self-confident elder brother, Preston Bailey.
Hungary, 1595: In a monastery, Knight Gabriel impales a demon, which then turns to stone. 2001: Nigel and Sydney arrive bearing a letter from a monk, but the abbot claims it is a forgery and shuts them out.
Jerusalem 1099: crusaders find the Tau cross, but it evaporates the one touching it. Paris 2001: Allan comes to Sydney, sating he has 12 hours before a virus kills him unless he delivers the Tau to a blackmailer who has the antidote
Quan Shu, Manchuria 1359 BC: The Chinese invent an explosive gift egg. New York, 2001: A rival beats Sydney and Nigel to a map leading to the Dragon's Egg.
Bali, 1459: A princess gets to look into Parvati's Bowl. Singapore, 2001: Sydeney runs into her ex and goes on a holiday with him; but when Derek Lloyd shows up to enlist her to find Parvati's Bowl, she can't resist
St. Beatrice's School for Girls, 1981: Sydney sees her teacher shot by a scar-faced man over an Egyptian pendant. 2001: Her roommate from school enlists Sydney's help to find the pendant and catch the killer.
Arabia AD 843: A sheikh uses the Light of Truth to reveal his general as a traitor. 2001: Prince Shareem drops out of Sydney's class to search for the Light of Truth.
Sydney's on the hunt for a pirate's booty…but will a traitor force her to walk the plank?
An sultan's wife dies under mysterious circumstances. Sydney believes she was searching for the Star of Nadir.
Czechoslovakia, 1720: A Satan-worshiper escapes from his hunters. Trinity College, 2001: Lucas Blackmer, a professor and novelist, asks Sydney to help find Vlad Tepes' lost relic.
Central America, AD 1488: the Aztecs hide a mysterious box. 2001: A guide leads Sydney and Nigel to an unusual, underground Aztec burial chamber where, instead of a body, they find a relic
New Guinea, 1522: A lancet bestows strength with its cut. 2001: Retrieving the lancet, Sydney and Nigel run into Nigel's look-alike just before his death.
Greece, 800 BC: King Minalysius gives a necklace to Princess Nabina, enslaving her to his will. 2001: Carson Inez, a collector, uses the necklace to get Sydney to help her to raise Athena.
New England Colonies, 1692: Witches consecrate an amulet before they are burned. 2002: Sydney's student's roommate finds the amulet.
Southeast Asia 1075: An idol of Ganesha is prayed to. 2002: Sydney finds the temple with the idol, but is trapped inside by local rebels.
Pacific Northwest, 1398: A native American sees lights descending from the sky. 2002: Sydney lectures about the natives, who faced a mysterious cataclysm 600 years ago.
An urn commissioned in a Cambodian monastery by the Chinese emperor for the remains of Confucius is about to be destroyed by systematic bombing of a whole province.
Sydney and Nigel travel to Istanbul to investigate the death of one Sydney's friends, a professor who was trying to prove Hercules did exist by finding the Belt of Hippolyte.
Sidney drags Nigel along to an Arctic base where an ancient mummy has been found.
Scotland Yard calls Sidney and Nigel to identify a Fifth Century murder weapon, which turns out to be the burial cross of King Arthur.
Professor Lamenza invites Sydney and Nigel to follow the trail of the Spanish crown hidden from Napoleon's army by Carlos IV.
Sidney inherits a key from the best relic hunter of the previous generation and hunts for the one treasure he never found—Pandora's box.
Bekkastan, 1401 AD: warrior princess Kahina proves her right to rule. 2002: Sydney and Nigel unearth a cave painting that might lead them to Kahina's Saddle.
While Nigel is in Spain, Sydney and Nigel's brother Preston go to England to search for a bottle of water from the Fountain of Youth.
An author on the Celts approaches Sydney and Nigel to follow up on a tip about a map to the astronomicons—the Druids' keys to Stonehenge, lost since the Romans conquered Britain.