The 'true' story behind Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
. But archaeologists do still consider it to be one of the most mysterious, and quite wondrous, discoveries of the ancient world.– it isn't the only link The Dial of Destiny has to real history.As alluded to in the movie, the Antikythera was retrieved by divers from a shipwreck off the coast of Greece in 1901.
The hands showed the position of the Sun, the Moon, and each of the planets visible to the naked eye – Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. It also would have featured a calendar and a way to predict lunar and solar eclipses.Now, the movie directly credits Archimedes with its creation, which wouldn't have been possible since it was made several centuries after his death.
While the "graphikos" pointing to the location of the rest of the dial and Archimedes's tomb is fictional , Helena references two "codes", concealing clues to trick more amateur tomb raiders. Both are real. The former were huge beams which swung out over the city walls, in order to drop weights onto attacking ships or somehow hook into them and lift them out of the water. The latter was some kind of curved, reflective shield that could focus sunlight onto the ships and cause them to burst into flames, much like ants under a magnifying glass.
It's the little chunk of spear that our famed archaeologist and his ally Basil Shaw are after in the opening flashback to 1944. It was first mentioned in the Gospel of John, though the connection to a Roman centurion named Longinus comes much later, and is alleged to have been the lance that pierced Jesus's side as he hung on the cross.
Recent tests have revealed that the spear was made not at the time of Christ's death, but in the 7th century AD.Cicero writes about tracking down Archimedes's grave in Syracuse which was "hidden by bushes of brambles and thorns".
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