THE BIG READ: Million dollar treasure chest is waiting to be found

Forrest Fenn, a real-life Indiana Jones, has spent his life digging for artifacts and treasure all around the world. Somewhere in the mountains north of Santa Fe, the 82-year-old has buried a small antique chest. Inside is €1m of his treasure — and he wants you to find it. Are you up for an adventure? Tony Dokoupil joins the hunt

"I’M SURE not going to die in a hospital bed,” Forrest Fenn likes to say, and at 82-years-old his is not an idle promise.

Fenn has spent his life as a treasure hunter, a real-life Indiana Jones who has bought, sold, traded, and dug his way to a peerless collection of artifacts. Now he is determined to avoid becoming “the leftovers of history” himself. And he recently set in motion a plan he thinks will make headlines — a thousand years from now.