The Masons were Indiana Jones

SUMMARYThe Masons were Indiana Jones (Nov 3, 2026). Tito: "They knew what they were looking for: the inscriptions, the maps, the temples, the writings."

RECORDIsaiah Thomas, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, founded the American Antiquarian Society in 1812; the society published Caleb Atwater's survey of Ohio's mounds in 1820

RECORDDeWitt Clinton, Grand Master of New York's Masons, wrote A Memoir on the Antiquities of the Western Parts of the State of New-York (1818), on the mounds and earthworks, and sent it to Jefferson

RECORDthe Rite of Misraïm ("Misraim" is Hebrew for Egypt) was brought to France in 1814 by the Bédarride brothers, officers in Napoleon's army. The Rite of Memphis was founded in France shortly before 1838. Egyptomania surged in Freemasonry after Napoleon's Egypt campaign

RECORDRobert Macoy's Masonic cyclopedia (1868/1870) printed paleo-Hebrew letters; the Bat Creek forgery case says the stone copies it (P177).
TIMELINE (Pattern): 1812 Masonic Grand Master founds the antiquarian society; 1813 Brackenridge tells Jefferson the Cahokia mounds are "as ancient as those of Egypt"; 1814 the Egyptian (Misraïm) Masonic rite arrives in France with Napoleon's officers; 1817–18 Egypt-campaign veterans settle the Gulf (P167); 1818 a Masonic Grand Master surveys New York's mounds, and Cairo IL is planned; 1819 Memphis TN is named

LENSthe lodges ran the search for the ancient American record (the mounds, inscriptions, maps), with Egyptian rites, at the same time the land was being named Egypt. They knew what they were looking for (Pattern).
OPEN, needs deep research: lodge membership of Overton, Winchester, Comegys (Cairo) and Duppa (Phoenix); what the American Antiquarian Society collected from the mounds and where it is now.