They are all fictional, of course.
Actually, in my experience, archaeologists are indeed a vicious bunch, but they usually eschew large-caliber revolvers and bullwhips.
(Tip of the stained fedora to Caroline of Necropolis Now.)
Letter from Hardscrabble Creek
A Pagan Studies Blog by Chas S. Clifton
They do have guns in Israel, but they don’t shoot them about wildly while smashing up archaeological evidence.
Are you saying that the journal article is better than the movie?!?