4:29min
Enter Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford). “It was Indiana Jones who made me take up archaeology,” says Raksha Dave, archaeologist and Time Team presenter.

8:04min
Jones searches for a relic in a warehouse full of ancient artefacts. “It’s like the British Museum storehouse,” Raksha chuckles, “full to the gills with foreign treasures, and most of them stolen.”

21:19min
The Russians accuse Jones of spying. “There has been such a tradition of archaeological spies that foreign countries assume that if you’re an archaeologist you’re almost definitely a spy,” says Joe Flatman, a lecturer in archaeology at University College London. “T. E. Lawrence, when digging in Syria in 1913, was actually spying for the Brits.”

28:34min
Jones and Mutt Williams (Shia LaBeouf) speak of a crystal skull found by Mitchell-Hedges. “He was a real-life English adventurer who claimed to have discovered a crystal skull at the Maya ruin of Lubaantun. Some thought it to be preColombian and proof of alien technology but now is believed to have been made in the 19th century,” says James Doeser, a PhD archaeology student at UCL.

30:12min
Williams asks Jones if he remembers his mother, Mary Williams. “I knew many woman called Mary,” replies Jones. “A lot of male archaeologists are womanisers,” says Sarah Dhanjal, who is also doing a PhD in archaeology at UCL. “One particular dig at a British Roman site was allegedly a nonstop drunken shag fest,” James adds.

36:40min
Jones shows Williams images of huge figures etched into the Peruvian landscape. “Spielberg and George Lucas have just taken Erich von Däniken’s book, Chariots of the Gods?, and written a film around it,” says Joe.

42.13min
A sign outside a temple gives warning that grave robbers will be killed. “I was excavating in Salisbury last week and a man called me a grave robber and told me to leave the dead alone,” Raksha says.

77:57min
Jones is seen with his hat, jacket and whip. “The whole concept was swiped from a Fifties film, Secret of the Incas, starring Charlton Heston as a tough American finder of antiquities who dressed exactly the same as Jones,” says James.

94.01min
Jones batters at a temple to gain access. “So now they go round vandalising temples?” James sniffs.

THE VERDICT

“Harmless hokum,” Joe thought. “It’s great to have Indiana back but the archaeology isn’t at all accurate,” said James. “The only film that was was The Exorcist,” ventured Sarah.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is out to buy and rent on DVD and to buy on Blu-ray. James Doeser is curator of www.badarchaeology.net

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