DD,

You should know better than this. I thought Indiana was from the U.of C. At least that's where the class scenes were filmed.

Actually, Indy studied archaeology at the University of Chicago under Professor Abner Ravenwood, father of Marion (played by Karen Allen), his love interest in the first movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark. The scenes of Indy studying at UofC were actually filmed at Duke. Indy left UofC soon after getting his Ph.D., having dumped Marion.

Ravenwood is thought to be James Henry Breasted, the first director of the Oriental Institute at UofC.

A few people are thought to possibly have been the inspiration for Indy. I would like to think it was Robert John Braidwood. I think Braidwood had a wonderful death - if there can be such a thing. He married Linda in 1937. They worked together all their lives - both at UofC and in the field, primarily in the "Fertile Crescent". They had a family and many devoted friends and students. All in all, they had long, productive, fruitful lives. Both Linda and Robert were hospitalized at the UofC hospital in early January 2003. in the early morning of January 15, 2003, Bob passed away, at the age of 95. In the evening of January 15, a few hours after her husband passed away, Linda died, at the age of 93.