“How Indiana Jones Actually Changed Archaeology”

My Deseret News column for last Thursday pointed out that “real archaeology bears little resemblance to an Indiana Jones movie.”

That’s true, of course.

But a new exhibit at the museum of the National Geographic Society in Washington DC  illustrates a few of the connections that do exist between those movies and contemporary archaeology:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/05/150514-indiana-jones-archaeology-exhibit-national-geographic-museum/