Explorers on the hunt for the lost gold of the Knights Templar may have found its last location before disappearing.
During the Crusades, the warrior monks of the Knights Templar battled for God, gold and glory.
But, ever since their demise, legends of a long-lost treasure have become the fascination of hunters and explorers alike.
Such stories have never been proven, but a new National Geographic documentary is seeking to change that.
In Lost Cities with Albert Lin – which Daily Star Online has been given an exclusive first look at – the title explorer focusses his hunt in the Israeli city of Acre.
While it is one of the last known headquarters of the order, their fortress and infamous "treasure tower" is nowhere to be seen in the present day.
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So Albert got to work trying to find where this fortress was.
He first came across a journal from a 13th-century writer, which described a temple fortress by the sea.
"'There was a very old tower by the sea which is where the Templars kept their treasure'," Albert reads.
This leads him to the waterfront at Acre, where he meets a marine archaeologist who explains how a large hoard of coins were discovered at the entrance to the harbour.
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He then explains to Albert how what appeared to be a naturally-forming shelf of rock outside the harbour's walls may actually be the foundations to a huge structure during the Crusades period.
The explorer decides to send a drone in the air to get a clearer birds-eye view of these rocks.
Using the information from the journal as well as the images of the rocks surrounding the harbour, Albert is able to create a never-before-seen glimpse of where the fortress stood and what it looked like.
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"We built an app that displays the outline over the parking lot that stands here now," the explorer says as he reveals the incredible 3D map of the structure.
The augmented reality of the templar changes in perspective when the camera moves across the horizon as if the fortress were still stood there.
On a tablet, the vast structure was visible as a blueprint hovering over the now-car park.
And at its tip and showpiece was the "Treasure Tower" – where the huge wealth may have been stored.
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While he came up short in finding the fabled treasure, the collection of coins found at the mouth of the harbour may suggest its final resting place.
Speaking to Daily Star Online, he said: "Their wealth has been spread throughout the world."
One of the most stand-out moments for Albert in the episode was standing inside a secret vault which held a huge fortune.
"I was in this volt that was buried under the floorboards," he told this site.
"And you get into this mindset of those Templars, you get into the mindset of what they were really facing but you also get into the midset of the people defending the land.
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"But there is this once instance, where I sat in a vaulted lock that I'm not even allowed to tell the location of, at all, whatsoever.
"It contained such valuable relics, a stack of gold coins, a hoard that was buried in the floorboards in this castle and that was attacked for a long time, for many years, and finally they let down their arms under the promise that they would survive.
"So you think about the person that put that gold down there and you get into the mindset of that specific individual person.
"You figure that that person put that gold there because they thought they were going to live and obviously they didn't because they would have gone back for the gold."
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