Season 1 Episode 14 - A Fistfull Of Dinars

Xena finds one of her old acquaintances being attacked and chases his attacker while Gabrielle attends to his wounds. Xena recovers a purse stolen from him but is then challenged by his attacker, at which point she removes a parchment map from the purse and after memorising it, eats it. It turns out that it is one of four clues to the location of the buried treasure of the Samarian Empire. She soon teams up with an assassin and a warlord and they set off to find the treasure; Xena informs Gabrielle that buried along with the treasure is some ambrosia - the food of the gods -which will turn any mortal who eats it into a god.