The second speaker is the archeologist, who, to Verna, looks about twelve.

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After meeting up with the archeologist guide, visitors take a cycling tour (bikes are provided) through the temple complex and north toward the south gate of Angkor Thom, to check out the centerpiece of this ancient city, the Bayon temple.

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Uncovered in December, 1912, by the German archeologist Ludwig Borchardt, the 47-centimeter-tall, colorful bust is some 3, 400 years old.

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Allen said he had admired the work of Gertrude Bell, the British writer and archeologist who was partly responsible for the creation of modern Iraq in the 1920s.

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Ayau says the items were desecrated by David Forbes, an amateur archeologist in Hawaii around the turn of the last century.

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In 1920, after graduating, he took up a life-changing eight-month residency as a prospective archeologist at the American Academy in Rome, followed by a brief sojourn in Paris.

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The Mayan calendar is based on the position of the heavenly bodies -- the sun, the moon and the stars -- and was meant to tell the Mayan people about agricultural and economic trends, said archeologist Alfredo Barrera.

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The plot is incomprehensible gibberish about a crystal skull, the lost Amazonian city of Akator, and a brain-fried archeologist named Ox (John Hurt, who is anything but an ox).

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"Buy something that is known to have been privately owned before the 20th century and you are probably safe, " says Patty Gerstenblith, an archeologist and law professor at DePaul University.

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