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EATON Then what do they want him for?
(MORE) INDY Only half of it. Ravenwood had the other half. EATON What would the Nazis want with this - this Staff of Ra? INDY They’re looking for the headpiece to the Staff of Ra. MUSGROVE (indicates his sheet) But it says here that’s in China. BRODY I can tell you that. Over the last two years the Nazis have had teams of archeologists running around the world looking for all kinds of religious artifacts. MUSGROVE That’s right. Hitler’s a nut on the subject. Crazy. He’s obsessed with the occult.
EATON What is this Staff of Ra, anyway?
INDY It all has to do with the Ark of the Covenant. (the Army guys look mystified) The chest the Hebrews used to carry around the Ten Commandments.
Now it’s the Army men who are impressed.
INDY An Egyptian pharoah stole the Ark from Jerusalem and took it back to the city of Tanis. A short time later, Tanis was consumed by the desert in a sandstorm that lasted a year.
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