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Egypt

Egypt is a country located in northeastern Africa.

Egypt was home to Sallah Mohammed Faisel el-Kahir and his family as well as the location of Tanis. Indiana Jones visited the country several times in his life.

Adventures in Egypt

Indiana Jones first visited Egypt with his family in 1908 as part of his father's world lecture tour.[1]

It was in 1913 when Jones and the Sallah Mohammed Faisel el-Kahir met and became friends at the Great Pyramids.[2]

As a spy in World War I, Jones worked in Egypt during his attempts to prevet a German agent from buying an advanced Gatling gun.[3]

Jones and Sallah uncovered the Ark of the Covenant at Tanis in 1936.[4]

One year later Indiana Jones visited Egypt in search of the Great Circle.[5]

Locations within Egypt

Cities

Archaeological sites and artifacts

Notable Egyptians

Behind the scenes

Despite how much of the second act of Raiders of the Lost Ark takes place in Egypt, the on-location Cairo and Tanis scenes were actually shot in Tunisia. Associate producer Robert Watts reasoned that if the movie wasn't going to show distinctive Egyptian landmarks like the Great Sphinx, the Pyramids or the Nile river, there was no need to actually film there as Tunisia was a more convenient option for production.[6][7]

According to Machine Games senior narrative designer Ed Curtis-Sivess, the company's developers consulted historians and experts in autenthicity fields for the realization of the Indiana Jones and the Great Circle video game to make they represented Egypt to their culture exactly as it was in 1937 and not as a "caricature" for the player to explore and uncover.[8]

Appearances

Sources

Notes and references

  1. ↑ The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal" → My First Adventure
  2. ↑ Young Indiana Jones and the Tomb of Terror
  3. ↑ Instruments of Chaos starring Young Indiana Jones
  4. ↑ Raiders of the Lost Ark
  5. ↑ Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
  6. ↑ Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
  7. ↑ IndianaJones.com No Need for Egypt on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)
  8. ↑ How Troy Baker became Indiana Jones in MachineGames' The Great Circle | BAFTA on YouTube

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