Key to the Tomb of the Gods

"It looked like one-third of a circular object. You put the three parts together, it makes a key and it opens... something."

- Indiana Jones

The Key to the Tomb of the Gods was an artifact that could be used to open the Tomb of the Gods. Its origins may predate paleolithic human cultures.

In 1931, Henrik Mellberg, Francis Beresford-Hope, and Marwell O'Brien sought the key and discovered it in a diamond mine north of Norilsk, Siberia. At some point later, they divided the key into three sections to protect the secrets of the Tomb of the Gods from falling into the wrong hands.

In 1936, fearing that O'Brien's piece had been lost to the Ahnenerbe, Mellberg contacted Indiana Jones to have him continue the quest of safeguarding the key. However, Friedrich von Hassell's agents were on Mellberg's trail and shot the archaeologist in New York City. Jones was able to take Mellberg's piece of the key, and learn that Beresford-Hope was supposed to be in Tibet. However, in his escape from the Ahnenerbe agents, the piece was stolen at gunpoint by a woman in a maid outfit.

Jones and Marcus Brody traveled to Tibet to find Beresford-Hope's piece of the key before the Nazis could obtain it.

Appearances

 * Indiana Jones and the Tomb of the Gods
 * Indiana Jones and the Tomb of the Gods 1