Archaeologist Breaks Down 10 Treasure Hunting Scenes In Movies | How Real Is It?
Archaeologist Breaks Down 10 Treasure Hunting Scenes In Movies | How Real Is It?
Archaeology has played a role in scores of iconic Hollywood films, from “The Mummy” to “Titanic.” But what’s a real-life archaeologist’s take on these movies? New York University archaeologist Mariana Castro reacts to 10 scenes featuring the most famous fictional archaeologists and treasure hunters, from Indiana Jones to Lara Croft, and rates them based on their realism.
Find out how realistic Indiana Jones’ adventures are in movies like “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.” Watch Mariana dissect Nicolas Cage’s methodology in “National Treasure,” Angelina Jolie’s field gear in “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider,” Max von Sydow’s’s Iraq excavation in “The Exorcist,” and Rachel Weisz’s exhumation of the sarcophagus in “The Mummy.” She breaks down the important differences between excavation and looting, does some myth-busting about the pseudoarchaeology depicted in movies like “Stargate,” critiques Matthew McConaughey’s archaeological practices in “Sahara,” and tells us what Disney’s “Atlantis: The Lost Empire” actually gets right about archaeology.
From an expert’s perspective, find out whether archaeologists really use metal detectors, why the military does sometimes get involved in archaeological projects, why alien and space archaeology isn’t a thing, and why actual fieldwork doesn’t look like the shipwreck exploration seen in James Cameron’s “Titanic.” Plus, why booby traps aren’t all that common archaeology finds, and what tricks ancient civilizations actually used to deter looters.
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Archaeologist Breaks Down 10 Treasure Hunting Scenes In Movies | How Real Is It?
Part of the genius of the Exorcist is they made an exTREMEly realistic movie about demon possession, and the realistic excavation site is part of establishing the realistic atmosphere.
Gives things that she says are completely unrealistic a 2 and gives things she says are extremely realistic a 9 because she is not religious….
Indiana Jones is a better archaeologist than her
A friend of mine who is an Egyptologist told me that the hieroglyphs seen in Stargate really made sense in Egyptian! So they had apparently consulted an expert before writing them down.
She came at this from a modern mindset. Many of these movies were set 50+ years ago when we didn’t use current methods for excavating.
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me – they better have stargate, 15:17 awwww yeaahhh. 4/10, how dare she
At 6:34 it looks pretty cold but she has her jacket open. Nice knockers but. Unrealistic imho!
Many years ago I was in college and I began to do archaeology as my major. I grew up watching every Indiana Jones movie probably three or four times a year absolutely loved it. And I remember sitting in my very first class for my archaeology major and told that most archaeologist end up working in a museum and never actually get to go out to the field. I changed majors from history and archaeology to history and education because if I’m going to have to sit in a room all day I might as will be a teacher
Register everything u see is important, trying not to disturb the context. I was like wtf when i saw the archaeologist scene of suicide squad xD
Also young Indy scene: he’s making an independent and perhaps brash choice to steal the cross from the looters. He’s not interpreting policy or law. Hence his choice backfires and the law turns up on the side of the looters, at least initially.
Seems consistent with what you’ve told us, Ms. Castro.
Were dad jokes big in the ancient world?
17:55 Construction hats… OK… Well this movie is set in 1923 and 1926, and somehow I don’t see any archeologyst of that time in a construction hat. But even if… I don’t think any hat would protect you if that sacrophagus would land on you…
Also there is no archeologyst in that clip – nor in the whole expedition (not even in the entire movie…). O’Connell is an ex-soldier and an adventurer at that point, Evelyn is a librarian and her brother is… well… failed college or university student? A librarian too maybe? Definitely a thief, looter and an idiot…
The other expedition is full with stereotypical american adventurers, sooo… No sorry – no archeologyst in the movie, since even the man the americans are protecting is an egyptologyst – but still not an archeologyst
she’s so cool
no jurassic park?
Please don’t invite the host back. She is just awful.
Curses kept looters out?
Bye.
and when she said "very important for archaeologists to date things, organic materials," I took that personally
Mariana Castro looks like she jumped out of an old painting
Hieroglyphics on the chalkboard make it the province of linguists. Is there or is there not a hieroglyph for "gate" and one for "star" or "stars?" Is "doorway to Heaven" a plausible translation error?
And would a translator really take "star" and "gate" and make them into a compound word?
I always wondered why Indiana Jones didn’t just step back and let the boulder track over his head
I effin love this woman. Her reaction to the movies (even though they are entertaining) is how exactly how I would react. I wanted to be a archeologist since I was kid but decided to become a historian.
Hollywood tries to make Archaeologist’s life so cool but in reality its anyone with an interest in a specific thing can built obsession then claim himself/herself to be an archaeologist
Is it just me or I find this girl charmingly cute?
She looks like "the girl with the pearl earring"
Young Indy scene: what’s his age have to do with it? He had an archeologist father, an Oxford tutor, and at least one field mentor. The key question is more how he’d confidently ID the cross from a discreet distance in subterranean lighting.
At least he can see the shape of the cross and he knows his own location. Could that be enough?
Queens looking as ravishing and comely as always
When Atlantis showed she was like "that’s my jam yo"
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So looting items from their surroundings decreases their value subjectively or in terms of what we can learn from it or what?
I don’t know what it is, but you can tell this lady is a low key bad ass.
9:32 you haven’t seen Nathan Drake yet.
love that they put stargate in there
What’s the difference between a looters and an archeology person?
If you work for a company or if you work solo off the books
How would you describe her eyes?
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They don’t speak russian xD
Law : U return the artifact 2 the country of origin
British government :Wat?
I’d love to see another video by her. So interesting and informative.
Put some respect on The Mummy!!!
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Its all Hollywood most of it
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From what I’ve found most anthropology or archeology students got into it cause of Indiana Jones, The Mummy, Jurassic Park, or Atlantis (which was mine)