The film which was made for the programme Storia of RAI3, traces the history of our century\u2019s \u201carchaeological adventure\u201d through cinematic documents of the most important discoveries. Starting from the original shots of the discovery of Tutankhamon\u2019s tomb taken by Howard Carter (1922) and his descendants in the field of fiction (The Mummy by K.Freund, 1932), we explore the filmed documents on the archaeology of the 20\u2019s. Archaeology acquires a great momentum during the 30\u2019s in Italy, as a tool of Fascist propaganda to further the aims of imperialism (documents on Herculanum, Pompei, on the retrieval of Roman ships from Lake Nemi, on the imposing digs in the North-African colonies \u2013in Tripoli: Leptis Magna, Sabratha etc.\u2013) while in the cinema the regime of Scipio the African is celebrated by Carmine Gallone (1936). Starting with the 30\u2019s and 40\u2019s in America, they film expeditions searching for pre-colombian civilisations, while in the cinema the film in \u201carchaeological\u201d costume affirms itself and enjoys great popularity up to the 60\u2019s. From the most sensational discovery of those years \u2013the Dead Sea \u201cScrolls\u201d\u2013 through the Etruscans\u2019 ephemeral cinematic success of the 70\u2019s, we reach the \u201cpoetry\u201d of Fellini\u2019s subterranean Rome (1972). In 1981, the Bronzes of Riace fire the public\u2019s imagination and, in that same year, we witness the \u201carchaeological\u201d adventure\u2019s establishment with Spielberg\u2019s Indiana Jones, who looks like blazing new trails for current research: fiction has outdistanced the researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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