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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 3026914" data-attributes="member: 3649">That article is pretty fascinating. I think that lets out any 'last scion' ideas because (1) it wouldn't have been especially clever or surprising two years or more ago and now would be such common knowledge that the 'twist' would fall flat and (2) it wouldn't really be an archeological mystery type thing.We can assume that it's somethnig to do with the Judeo-Christian religion.It's almost certainly something to do with archeological discovery.It's something not very commonly known.It's something potentially very offensive but they've removed the offensive part.It's something supernatural.I think we can discount the Shroud of Turin, Noah's Ark, the Spear, the nails of the Cross, anything to do with Jesus having fathered children, etc, as being too well known.The location of the Garden of Eden would be an interesting one; the 'potentially offensive' part could be the legend that it's in the Middle East somewhere. Finding the bones of Jesus would fit all the above, except I can't imagine how they'd do that and 'remove the offensive part'.Something to do with Mecca or the black stone (the offensive part being non-Islamic Indy actually inside Mecca?)Something to do with the Egyptian Plagues? I doubt it, especially because of the James Cameron thing now.The existance of the Nifilhim is a little too esoteric and I can't think of anything patently offensive about them. Something to do with the Dead Sea Scrolls sounds very promising but only if you're doing something after WWII (discovered in 1947). He could discover some portin of them earlier, though. The idea of the Catholic Church suppressing some discovery in one of the scrolls might be possible, but is pretty unoriginal at this point (though this is Lucas we're talking about here). The excavation of Sodom and Gomorroah?There was a great story I read some time ago about a group of people discovering the statue of a woman remarkably preserved, from an era and area not known for such amazing detail. It turned out to be Lot's wife, the statue being made of salt. That's a possibility.The Lost Tribe of IsrealThe idea that the entire concept of Jesus and Christianity was created out of whole cloth around the time of Elizzabeth the First (one of the most crack-induced things I've heard of, but again this is Lucas we're dealing with - can you tell I've lost all faith in the man?)The Ballbek Megaliths, which include supposedly the largest single cut stone in existance, another in a long line of 'nobody knows how the Ancients moved these huge stone blacks' 'controversies'. How anything surrounding them could be 'offensive' I have no idea.</blockquote>

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