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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle's central concept based on real-world theory involving ancient sites (www.vg247.com)
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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago

Quite a lot of the Indiana Jones stories are based on real, or at least "real" artifacts.

Ark of the Covenant:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark_of_the_Covenant

Lingam Stones:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingam

Holy Grail:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Grail

Crystal Skulls:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_skull

Antikythera Mechanism:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

Another one that popped up in Dial of Destiny was the Spear of Longinus:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Lance