Archeology In Movies: Hollywood Digs Deep

Hollywood makes archeology look like one of the most exciting and frightening professions one can ever have. Before 'As Above, So Below' adds to the frightening part, let's look back at Hollywood's most memorable archeological digs.

Archeology's all fun and games until someone sets off booby traps and gets chased by giant boulders.

In this 'Raiders' prequel, Indy must battle Thugee cults bent on infecting the world with evil and ripping out people's hearts. So, clearly, it's a comedy.

As the poster for this summer '89 blockbuster said: "The Man in the Hat Is Back, and This Time He's Bringing His Dad." Sadly, he didn't also bring along Short Round.

An ancient alien race threatens to use their fancy time-space water portal to conquer our world, and it's up to Kurt Russell and archeologist James Spader to stop 'em.

Brendan Fraser does his best Indiana Jones impersonation and falls short in this CG-heavy guilty pleasure.

Angelina Jolie plays the popular, gun-toting video game heroine, who adds robotic sparring partners and guns to her unique brand of field research.

It's a crime that few people saw this follow-up to the 2001 hit. It opens with Croft punching a shark - what's not to love?!

Warner Bros. rejected writer-director Paul Schrader's 2004 take on the hazards of digging for demons in favor of director Renny Harlin's reshot dud from 2005. Both scared many an archeology major into liberal arts.

Before "The McCona-siance", there was - cringe - this. It's not the worst movie Matthew McConaughey ever made, but it's definitely its cousin.

Torches and lots of cobwebby history are all Nic Cage needs to go all "Da Vinci Code" on the Declaration of Independence. Best sentence ever?