The process begins with a riddle engraved on a 200-year-old found in the wreckage of the ship Charlotte .

Option 3: The "Wait, What’s on Page 47?" (The Sequel Hype)

The premise of the film is deceptively simple but ingeniously layered: Benjamin Franklin Gates has inherited a 200-year-old family obsession. For generations, the Gates family has been searching for a legendary treasure amassed by the Knights Templar, hidden by America’s Founding Fathers, and protected by the Freemasons. The key to this treasure lies in a cryptic map inscribed on the back of the most sacred document in American history: the Declaration of Independence.

The franchise follows Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage), a historian and cryptologist who believes his family has passed down a secret map—clues to a vast treasure hidden by the Founding Fathers and the Knights Templar. Key twist: The treasure isn’t gold but a collection of world-historical artifacts, with the first film’s prize being a hidden chamber of ancient Egyptian, Chinese, and American relics.