Archaeologists have revealed the provenance of the iconic “holy grail” cup discovered alongside 12 human skeletons at the exact location in Jordan where “Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade ...

Its claim to fame in pop culture is its depiction as the site of the Holy Grail in the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, starring Harrison Ford in the title role, reports the Daily Star.

As the author Niall Edworthy notes, "a young medievalist — Otto Rahn — was dispatched to find the Holy Grail by the Ahnenerbe, a pseudoscientific branch of the SS established in 1935.

A tomb beneath Petra’s Treasury reveals 12 skeletons and 2,000-year-old artifacts. Archaeologists call it a rare find, unlocking secrets of the Nabataeans.

A whip wielded by Harrison Ford in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" sold at auction for $525,000 a day after the Rosebud sled from "Citizen Kane" went for a near-record $14.75 million.