Aegean Sea

The Aegean Sea is a large body of water and part of the greater Mediterranean Sea. This area served as a significant theater of conflict preceding and during the Second World War. In 1936, a "U-Boot-Bunker" (submarine base) controlled by Nazi Germany was operating on an island in this region.

Following its capture by Arnold Toht and the French archaeologist Rene Belloq, the Ark of the Covenant was brought to this base. Accompanied by Colonel Herman Dietrich and a cadre of elite Nazi soldiers, Belloq enacted a ritual to open the Ark of the Covenant; upon seemingly finding nothing, Toht mocked the Frenchman, but even as he did, ethereal spirits swelled from the golden Ark and wove among the bewildered crowd. For a moment, these specters wore the faces of beautiful women, but they quickly adopted their true, skull-like visages as supernatural flames sprung from the Ark and killed Toht, Belloq and Dietrich in horrifying manners as their stormtroopers were cut down by golden bolts of light. As quickly as they had appeared, the ghosts vanished and the corpses of the Nazis were consumed by the fire, leaving only a desolate field of rock and the Ark itself. Their deaths enabled Indiana Jones and Marion Ravenwood, two prisoners of the Nazis and key members opposing the Third Reich's conspiracy to garner powers beyond the natural world, to escape captivity and hand the Ark over to the American government. With what seemed to be the power of a vengeful deity again sealed, the Ark was secured within a crate and tucked away within a vast warehouse, waiting for the moment when it may be needed again.