Indiana Jones: Freeze frame at 1 hour 6 minutes into Raiders of the Lost Ark and look at these hieroglyphs

A cameo by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas at the beginning of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, a dog like no other in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the return of the Ark of the Covenant in Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, or even a double nod to the Star Wars saga hidden in the cabin of a seaplane …

• Raiders of the Lost Ark: Pause at 11 minutes and 14 seconds and take a close look at the plane Indiana Jones is following

Press pause on the first panel…

Since he first arrived in theaters in 1981, the famous archaeologist, played by Harrison Ford, has sprinkled his adventures with many treasures for the attention of viewers who, like him, have an explorer’s spirit.

Especially highlighted by the frequent references to the distant galaxy of George Lucas – and for good reason, the latter was also the screenwriter of Indiana Jones – the famous saga came to the point where the two droids R2-D2 and C-3PO appeared in the middle of an ancient Egyptian city in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

…in 1 hour, 6 minutes and 14 seconds

Indeed, rediscovering the feature film, if you press pause at exactly 1 hour, 6 minutes and 14 seconds, the moment that Indy and Sala enter the city of Tanis to search for the Ark of the Covenant, you will notice. The presence of hieroglyphs on the column to the left of the adventurer is rather unusual.

If you look a little closer, you’ll realize that the ideograms are undoubtedly the famous astromech and protocol droid that accompanied Luke Skywalker in the movies, in both A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, which came out just a year before Raiders of the the lost ark

How two Star Wars characters managed to find themselves carved on a wall in ancient Egypt, on the other hand, is a question we’ll settle for with a few theories.

(Re)discover all the hidden details in ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’…