Tikal

Tikal is a Mayan city located in Guatamala. It is one of the largest urban centers of the pre-Colombian Maya Empire. Explorer John Lloyd Stevens heard stories of what is now Tikal in the 1840s. In 1926, Dr. Indiana Jones and Victor Bernard discovered a king's tomb, filled with gold ornaments and other valuable artifacts, but some were then stolen by local huqertos, grave robbers. The discovery nearly ended in disaster, with one of the local workers killed by booby traps and, for a short while, Jones and Bernard were sealed inside the pyrimid. They were then pulled out of a exit hole for bats, only to find that the other archeologists were held captive by the grave robbers. Jones was able to rescue the rest of the team by escaping and killing one of the grave robbers, but was grazed by one of the h