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The year is 1936. In Europe, the Nazis are on the march. And in a sleepy college town in

Bedford, Connecticut, a renowned archaeologist, just back from an eventful trip to Peru, receives

a visit from two shadowy agents of US Army Intelligence. They have intercepted a mysterious

message, Tannis development proceeding, acquire headpiece, staff of ra, and when the archaeologist

hears those words, his eye is widened. The Nazis have discovered Tannis, he says, one

of the possible resting places of the Lost Ark, the Ark of the Covenant. And so begins one

of history's most thrilling archaeological field trips. And the name of that death-defying

scholar, it is, of course, Tom Holland. It's not Dominic. Although, Tom, you're a bit

more of a Marcus Brody than an Indiana Jones, I knew. I completely Marcus Brody.

You remember the bit in Indiana Jones in the last crusade, where Indiana Jones, he speaks

30 languages, he's at home with, that's right, people's across entire continents. And he's

stumbling down the railway station, trying to name his glasses, steaming off. But we

should explain this, shouldn't we, for the people who haven't watched the Indiana Jones

series. So Stephen Spielberg, series of films, Harrison Ford, in a hat with a whip going

out and basically discovering stuff. They're the only great films about archaeology, I think

it's fair to say, and archaeologists absolutely love them. Because they make archaeology

seem much more interesting than it is. And they're conscious that their own careers are

a crushing disappointment to the general public. I mean, he does periodically say about

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