From Nazis to the Ark Five Surprising Truths from the Indiana Jones Films. Sadly, the much loved Indiana Jones movies dont represent the average day at work for most archaeologists, but there is more truth to Indys swashbuckling adventures than you may think. Crystal skulls  do exist, the  Nazis really were very keen on archaeology, and the worlds museums are full of  artefacts taken from unsuspecting tribal peoples. Here are some of the more surprising things the films got right. A raidin well go. Crystal skulls and holy grails Some of the artefacts featured in Indiana Jones are not as ridiculous as you might think. Crystal skulls made from Quartz, as featured in the fourth film, do exist theres even  one in the British Museum. The Sagrada Famlia, the towering, incomplete Gaudi cathedral, is one of several inspired physical embodiments of the serious ideas this book means to contemplate. New to OverDrive Well help you borrow eBooks, audiobooks, and more from your library. 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And while we have never found it, at least nine countries, including Ethiopia and Egypt, are rumoured to be the  location of the lost Ark of the Covenant, the wood and gold chest central to Raiders of The Lost Ark and rumoured to contain the stone slabs etched with the Ten Commandments. William Morriss vision of the Holy Grail. Art Gallery Ergs. Artflickr The Holy Grail, featured in Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade and which supposedly featured at the Last Supper and caught the blood of Christ during the crucifixion, is even more of a mystery. It does not actually appear in literature until the early 1. Joseph of Arimathea, in which the grail is sent for safe keeping in Britain. Real or not, however, all of these legendary artefacts do reveal a truth that many archaeologists have a personal holy grail. It is probably not an actual artefact it is objects relationships with other things, people or structures that actually allow us to interpret the lives of past cultures. We do not aim to collect objects, we aim to answer questions about how and why human societies change. That is our Grail quest. This way to the Grail. Nazis and nationalists Nazis were the villains of both Raiders of The Lost Ark and The Last Crusade, which again isnt far from the truth. For the Nazis, archaeology was central to proving their arguments for  Aryan superiority. Nazi research missions under the guise of the  Ahnenerbe were dispatched to a surprising variety of places in order to demonstrate the influence of Aryan migrants in prehistory, including Poland, the Andes and Tibet. Perhaps most telling are the works of  Gustaf Kossinna, whose book  German Prehistory A Pre eminently National Discipline  set out the archaeological justification for the annexation of Poland. Kossinna based it on the supposed presence of Germanic peoples there during prehistory, and while he died before Hitler came to power, he was active while the territorial negotiations at the  Versailles conference  after World War I were taking place. So Indiana Jones fighting Nazis is an honourable and historically accurate portrayal, even if the modern battleground against nationalist pseudo archaeology has now shifted to Twitter. Nazis and the ark from Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark 3 The Thuggees and the cult of Kali A real Temple of DoomA rather strange mish mash of ideas in the Temple of Doom did have some basis in fact, although very loosely interpreted. The Thuggees, led in the film by the sinister Mola Ram, were a  notorious criminal fraternity, suppressed by the British in colonial  India. The films mistreatment of  Kali is rather more obvious, however. Despite popular iconography the fangs, red eyes and penchant for blood this Hindu goddess is generally revered as more than just a destroyer and is a rather more nuanced force than the one represented in the film. Thuggees strangling a traveller public domain 4 That belongs in a museum This quote, from The Last Crusade, possibly is the most famous line spoken by Indy and the most problematic for archaeologists and museums. It reinforces the idea that Western academics have a right to excavate and display the worlds cultural treasures. Indeed, major national museum collections, from the British Museum to the Louvre were founded on this very belief but, in a post colonial world, this attitude has become hotly contested. What would Indy have said The Elgin Marbles. CC BY SA Do artefacts belong in museums Or do they belong to the people from whom they were taken What if those artefacts were removed more than a century ago, from a tomb built 4,0. These are the ethical questions museums must struggle with. For example, debates over the return of the  Parthenon or Elgin Marbles  to Athens from the British Museum are long running Cambridge students recently voted to return to Nigeria a bronze cockerel  which was removed in 1. Egypt severed ties with the Louvre Museum over the return of Ancient Egyptian remains.