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Article: National Treasure
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- The Stranger
- Article date:
- November 18, 2004
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Starring Nicolas Cage, National Treasure is about man who, like his father, his grandfather, and the grandfather of his grandfather's grandfather, has spent his life trying to find the greatest treasure in the history of the world. According to a family legend, the treasure was buried by a benevolent secret society somewhere in colonial America to protect it from its previous possessor, the British, who obtained it from Rome, where it had been for thousands of years after arriving from the cradle of civilization, Egypt.
In his book, History of Philosophy, 19th century German philosopher Hegel attributes the stages of world history (Egypt, Rome, Europe) to the movement of an absolute spirit; ...