- "Always thought it was a damn shame what happened to Andrés."
- ―Indiana Jones[src]
Doctor Andrés Silvio Uribe was a Peruvian archaeologist who was disgraced through forces outside of his control, for which he blamed American archaeologist Indiana Jones.
Biography[]
Early life[]
From Peru, Doctor Andrés Silvio Uribe became a renowned archaeologist and fathered two children: a daughter named Francisca and a son named Felipe, the former even following him in his archaeological footsteps.[1]
Career in ruins and death[]
At a dig in Ur, Iraq in August 1922,[2] Andrés Silvio Uribe organized an expedition that uncovered a previously unknown chamber full of artifacts out of which a young Indiana Jones retrieved a stone tablet, unaware of its connection to the Great Circle, a line around the world that cut through the site.[3] Uribe's reputation was irreparably damaged when the French archaeologist René Emile Belloq, one of Jones' colleagues also on the dig, absconded with several of the most valuable pieces recovered from the expedition.[2]
Unknown to everyone, a clandestine Vatican Secret Agency member monitoring the work to preserve the Great Circle's existence used the confusion from Belloq's theft to collect the stone tablet and sealed it away within the Vatican's archive.[3] Now infamously disgraced,[4] Uribe would also come to believe that Jones had stolen his credit for the discovery of the Pu-Abi harp found there. The memory stayed with him until his death, to the point of making Francisca and Felipe swear to ruin Jones' reputation, even requiring the man's life.[1]
Legacy[]
Indiana Jones himself felt it was a "damn shame" what happened to Andrés Silvio Uribe.[3] Uribe's dying wish led to the events surrounding Jones and the uncovering of the Chimu Taya Arms of Cuzco in Peru in Fall 1937, during which Jones managed to convince Francisca of his innocence, but a deluded Felipe ended up losing his life while trying to bring the Incan rule back to establish a Neo-Incan Empire.[1]
Appearances[]
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (Mentioned only)
- Indiana Jones and the Arms of Gold (First mentioned)
Sources[]
- Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide
How Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Changes How We Watch the Indy Films on Lucasfilm.com (backup link on Archive.org)
