HIS SEARCH for truth led him from the streets of Los Angeles, where he served as a police investigator and SWAT team member, to what may be the site of the biblical Mount Sinai. And yet his children believe his most impressive achievement may be having his findings featured as a question on a Trivial Pursuit™ card.

Bob Cornuke is the author of six books and president of the Bible Archaeology Search and Exploration (BASE) Institutein Colorado Springs. He's been featured on the National Geographic Channel, CBS, NBC's Dateline, Good Morning America, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, ABC, the History Channel and Ripley's Believe It or Not.

Bob has been a part of thirty expeditions around the world searching for lost locations of the Bible. He has searched for Noah's ark in Turkey and Iran; for the Ark of the Covenant in Egypt and Ethiopia, and most recently, his research team found the probable location of the apostle Paul's shipwreck off the coast of Malta.

Bob talked about his transition from crime scene investigator to global adventurer, how his police training helped him investigate ancient archaeological sites, and why digging up the past matters to us in the 21st Century.