The Magic Spear
The motion picture Raiders of the Lost Ark was an exciting fictional saga with evil Nazis, a heroic archaeologist and a missing supernatural treasure. The tale that inspired the movie, though, was almost as gripping as the film. It comes from a 1973 book by historian Trevor Ravenscroft entitled The Spear of Destiny. Ravenscroft says this true story starts close to 2000 years ago:

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