Cracked Mayan Code May Point to 8 Tons of Lost Mayan Gold

A expert claims to have cracked the famous Dresden Codex, a pre-Columbian Maya book likely from the 11th century. The book points to treasure hidden in a lake.

(FOX Science)- It's a treasure hunt even Indiana Jones would be proud of. 

Buried beneath a lake in Guatamala sits a fortune in lost treasure -- Mayan gold to be precise -- and a group of German archaeologists has just set off to find it. Their only guidance, a freshly decoded ancient book containing a map to the treasure. 

It sounds like a movie, but it's very much real, reported FoxNewsLatino. Joachim Rittsteig, an expert in Mayan writing who is heading up the mission to Guatemala's Lake Izabal, the site reported. Read more here.