3/17/2023 0 Comments Magnus redhand![]() ![]() This, coupled with Jones supposedly "stealing" credit for the Pu-Abi Harp's discovery, led a disgraced Uribe to blame Jones for his ruin and passed his hatred for the American on to his children Felipe and Francisca del Arco. In August 1922, the two met at an archaeological dig at Ur in Iraq on which Belloq absconded with several artifacts and sold them off, damaging the reputation of Doctor Andrés Silvio Uribe in the process. Belloq grew up admiring France's most acclaimed archaeologists–such as Dominique Vivant, Jean-François Champollion and Auguste Mariette–and made it his mission to become one himself by enrolling at the Sorbonne where a fellow student named Indiana Jones was studying linguistics. He had a twin brother, and another sibling named Claude. René Emile Belloq was born around the 1890s in Marseilles, France to a wealthy wine making family of noble French ancestry at Forteresse Malevil, and claimed to share blood ties with the Knights Templar and Jean Lafitte. In 1936, after claiming a golden Chachapoyan fertility idol from Jones in Peru, Belloq was hired by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler to assist in the Reich's search for the Ark of the Covenant, an expedition that would ultimately be his undoing. The involvement of his rival, however, managed to frustrate Belloq's plans on a number of occasions. Over the following years, Belloq embarked on several adventures in the pursuit of artifacts, often pre-empting or in the wake of Indiana Jones. A career at the Louvre was cut short when Belloq was suspected of funding a grave robbing expedition and afterwards became a mercenary archaeologist with increasingly unethical methods in carrying out his work. René Emile Belloq was a French archaeologist and rival of his American counterpart Indiana Jones.īorn in Marseilles, Belloq studied archaeology at the Sorbonne where he met and befriended Jones but eventually plagiarized his work with which he went on to win the Archaeological Society Prize. Independent " So once again, Jones, what was briefly yours is now mine." ―René Emile Belloq
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