Indy: "Neo," meaning "new" and "lithic"...
l- T-H...
...l- C...
...meaning "stone."
All right, let's get back to this site:
Turkdean Barrow, near Hazelton.
Contains a central passage and three chambers...
...or cysts...
...don't confuse that with robbing, in which case we mean...
...the removal of the contents of the barrow.
This site also demonstrates...
...one of the great dangers of archaeology...
...not to life and limb, although that does sometimes take place...
...no, I'm talking about folklore.
In this case local tradition held that there was a golden coffin buried at the site...
...and this accounts for the holes...
...dug all over the barrow and the generally poor condition of the find.
However, chamber three...
...was undisturbed, and the undisturbed chamber and the grave goods that were found in another...
...uh... in the area, give us a r...
Uh...
...reason to da... to, uh, to-to date this, uh, find as we have.
Um...
Any questions, then?
No? Okay, that's it for the day, then.
Um...
...don't forget... Michaelson, chapters four and five for next time.
And I will be in my office on Thursday, but not Wednesday.
I had it, Marcus. I had it in my hand.
Brody: What happened?
Indy: Guess.
Brody: Huh...
Belloq?
Indy: You want to hear about it?
Brody: Not at all.
I'm sure everything you do for the museum conforms to the International Treaty for the Protection of Antiquities.
Indy: It's beautiful, Marcus. I can get it. I got it all figured out. There's only one place he can sell it: Marrakech.
I need two thousand dollars. Listen...
Marcus: I brought some people to see you.
Indy: Look. I got these pieces. They're good pieces, Marcus.
Brody: Indiana....
Yes, the museum will buy them, as usual, no questions asked.
Yes, they are nice.
Indy: They're worth at least the price of a ticket to Marrakech.
Brody: But the people I brought are important, and they're waiting.
Indy: What people?
Brody: Army Intelligence.
They knew you were coming before I did.
Seem to know everything.
They wouldn't tell me what they want.
Indy: Well, what do I want to see them for?
What am I, in trouble?
Army agent #1: Yes, Dr. Jones, we've heard a great deal about you.
Indy: Have you?
Army Agent #1: Uh, professor of archaeology...
...expert on the occult...
...and, uh, how does one say it?
Obtainer of rare antiquities.
Indy: That's one way of saying it. Why don't you sit down? You'll be more comfortable.
Army agents: Thank you.
Army agent #2: Yes, you're a man of many talents.
Army agent #1: Now, you studied under Professor Ravenwood at the University of Chicago.
Indy: Yes, I did.
You have no idea of his present whereabouts?
Indy: Uh... well, just rumors, really. Somewhere in Asia, I think. I haven't really spoken to him for ten years.
We were friends, but, uh...
...had a bit of a falling out, I'm afraid.
Army agent #2: Hmm...
Dr. Jones, now, you must understand that this is all strictly confidential, eh?
Indy: I understand.
Uh...
Yesterday afternoon, our...
European sections intercepted a...
...a German communiqu that was sent from Cairo to Berlin.
Now, to Cairo...
Army agent #1: Over the last two years, the Nazis have had teams of archaeologists running around the world looking for all kinds of religious artifacts.
Hitler's a nut on the subject. He's crazy.
He's obsessed with the occult.
And right now apparently there's some kind of German archeological...
...dig going on in the desert outside of Cairo.
Army agent # 2: Now, we've got some information here, but we can't make anything out of it, and maybe you can.
Tanis development...
...proceeding...
...acquire headpiece...
...Staff of Ra.
Abner Ravenwood, U. S.
Indy: The Nazis have discovered Tanis.
Army agent #1: Just what does that mean to you, uh, Tanis?
Brody: Well...
Indy: The city of Tanis is one of the possible resting places of the Lost Ark.
Army agent #2: The Lost Ark?
Indy: Yeah, the Ark of the Covenant.
The chest the Hebrews used to carry around the Ten Commandments.
Army agent #2: What do you mean, "commandments"?
Army Agent #1: You talking about the Ten Commandments?
Indy: Yes, the actual Ten Commandments.
The original stone tablets that Moses brought down out of Mount Horeb and smashed, if you believe in that sort of thing.
Any of you guys ever go to Sunday school?
Army agent #2: Well, I...
Indy: Oh, look.
The Hebrews took the broken pieces and put them in the Ark.
When they settled in Canaan, they put the Ark in a place called the Temple of Solomon.
Brody: In Jerusalem.
Indy: Where it stayed for many years. Until, all of a sudden, whoosh, it's gone.
Army agent #1: Where?
Indy: Well, nobody knows where or when.
Brody: However, an Egyptian pharaoh... -
Indy: Shishak.
Brody: Yes...invaded the city of Jerusalem right about 980 BC...
...and he may have taken the Ark...
...back to the city of Tanis...
...and hidden it in a secret chamber...
...called the Well of Souls.
Army agent #1: Secret chamber?
Brody: However, about a year after the pharaoh would return to Egypt, the city of Tanis...
...was consumed by the desert in a sandstorm which lasted a whole year.
Wiped clean by the wrath of God.
Army agents: Uh-huh.
Army agent #2: Obviously, we've come to the right men.
Now you seem to know, uh, all about this Tanis, then.
Indy: No, no, not really. Ravenwood is the real expert.
Abner did the first serious work on Tanis.
Collected some of its relics.
It was his obsession, really.
But he never found the city.
Army agent #1: Frankly, we're somewhat suspicious of Mr. Ravenwood.
An American being mentioned so prominently in a secret Nazi cable.
Brody: Oh, rubbish. Ravenwood's no Nazi.
Army agent #2: Well, what do the Nazis want him for, then?
Indy: Well, obviously, the Nazis are looking for the headpiece to the Staff of Ra...
...and they think Abner's got it.
Army agent #1: What exactly is a headpiece to the Staff of Ra?
Indy: Well, the staff is just a stick...
I don't know, about this big, nobody really knows for sure how high it is...
...it's, uh...
...it's capped with an elaborate headpiece...
...in the shape of the sun, with a crystal in the center.
And what you did was you take the staff...
...to a special room in Tanis...
...a map room with a miniature of the city all laid out on the floor...
...and if you put the staff in a certain place, at a certain time of day, the sun shone through...
...here and made a beam that came down on the floor here...
...and gave you the exact location of the Well of the Souls.
Army agent #2: Where the Ark of the Covenant was kept, right?
Indy: Which is exactly what the Nazis are looking for.
Army agent #1: What does this Ark look like?
Indy: Uh...
There's a picture of it right here.
That's it.
Army agent #2: Good god.
Brody: Yes, that's just what the Hebrews thought.
Army agent #1: Uh...
...now, what's that supposed to be coming out of there?
Indy: Lightning...
...fire...
...power of God or something.
Army agent #1: I'm beginning to understand Hitler's interest in this.
Brody: Oh, yes.
The Bible speaks of the Ark leveling mountains, and laying waste...
...to entire regions.
An army which carries the Ark before it...
...is invincible.