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Expect at least one group of antagonists to be on the heroes' heels throughout all this.
The treasure can range from criminal loot and [[Pirate]] gold to [[Temple of Doom|ancient temples]] and powerful [[MacGuffin
The [[Adventurer Archaeologist]] will often come across treasure maps. This trope is also a form of [[A MacGuffin Full of Money]].
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See also [[Lottery Ticket]].
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* ''[[Cutthroat Island]]''.
* ''[[The Goonies]]''. Mikey leads the Goonies with the centuries-old map hoping it still leads to [[Pirate Booty]].
* The ''[[Indiana Jones]]'' [[
** Complete with a [[Lampshade Hanging]] on the trope in ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade|The Last Crusade]]''. The beginning of the movie has Indy telling his students that "We don't follow maps to buried treasure, and X never, ever marks the spot." Of course, both statements turn out to be untrue.
* ''[[It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World]]'' - Grogan's [[Final Speech]] functions as a treasure map.
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AzpByR3MvI The song at the top of this page] from ''[[LazyTown]]'' fits this trope perfectly.
* The Mad Dog Morgan episode of ''[[Wild Boys]]'' centres around the a map to cache of stolen gold.
* In ''[[Crusoe]]'', the guy who knew the whereabouts of the treasure hidden on Crusoe's island (a golden cannon!) tattooed it onto the back of the guy he was stuck in prison
{{quote|'''Jeremiah Blackthorn''': Is this leather?
'''Santos Santana''': Not exactly. }}
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== Video Games ==
* The ''[[Monkey Island]]'' series features this often. Notably the Treasure hunting trial in the first game (also a slight subversion, since the
** Guybrush was very unlucky in the third game, when he had to get the map off of some guy's back. The map was actually sunburned skin. Rottingham said it perfectly: "That's your map? Eeeew."
* ''[[Romancing SaGa]]'' pulls this off well several times:
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== Real Life ==
* [[Shrouded in Myth|Legend and Wikipedia has it]] that the notorious pirate Olivier Levasseur, nicknamed ''La Buse'', threw a parchment with an encrypted message into the assembled crowd immediately before he was hanged in Saint-Denis on Réunion in 1730, [[Weasel Words|allegedly]] accompanied by the words ''"Find my treasure, ye who may understand it!"''
* Geocaching is a 21st-century recreational variant of this trope, using GPS coordinates and riddles as the "map" and bragging rights for having found caches as the "treasure".
* The mysterious so-called [[wikipedia:Copper scroll|Copper Scroll]], one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, lists the locations and contents of no less than 63 treasure troves. Archeologists have attempted to follow the directions, but have found nothing.
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