For centuries, rumors of buried treasure have enticed treasure hunters from around the world, many of whom have dedicated their lives to search for a fortune that may never be found.In the last few years a real treasure hunt has been underway, and the team searching for it is close to making some of the most groundbreaking discoveries in history.

In 2006, brothers Rick and Marty Lagina and their team began a project on Oak Island, an island in Nova Scotia, rumored to be the site where treasure dating back to the Knights Templar is buried. This project to find the massive amounts of treasure and artifacts thought to be hidden there is still in progress.The History Channel series “The Curse of Oak Island” follows the team’s efforts as it has since 2014.

On Tuesday, a two-hour series special revealed the Oak Island crew may be closer to cashing in their years worth of efforts than ever before. Along with rare findings including fragments of ancient pottery and a mysterious stone slab, the team has learned there may be new, more precise ways of finding the exact location, or locations, of the treasure.

Although the special provided some new information to the audience about the team’s past findings, it was a slight disappointment which lacked the expected progression in the search for the treasure.

Most of the episode consisted of constant snags the Laginas faced while constructing their largest and most expensive project, a cofferdam which will hold back water so they can excavate a site that’s integral to the process of finding the treasure.

Understandably, there will be many obstacles with such a large-scale project. However, nearly half of the episode was focused on the cofferdam, which yielded no findings for the team. It wasn’t until the preview for the next episode that foreshadowed the discovery of something major: a large, ancient wooden structure beneath the surface of the beachfront the team has been searching for since the beginning of their hunt.

In order to keep the series running for the audience, it’s logical not to put all the information in one episode; however, there should have been more content in the special two-hour premiere than what had been released.  

Although the new premiere fell short of excitement, the preview for season six’s eighth episode promises new discoveries and potential leads as to the locations of the treasure, along with more information on the origins of artifacts already found.

New episodes of “The Curse of Oak Island” air on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. central time on the History Channel.