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* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': Will Medina the victim from ''Wrapped up in Death'' is described as "a modern day ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' once waking into a rain forrest with just a backpack and coming out a month later with a priceless artifact. That being said, he wasn't above tricking natives into leading him to a sacred burial chamber, or selling a mummy that wasn't login to be displayed on the black market.

With respect to ValuesDissonance, many of the old portrayals of the Adventurer Archeologist — especially those in the 19th and early/mid 20th century — are falling into DiscreditedTrope territory. Not only is archaeological knowledge becoming much more exposed to the general public, but how they have been portrayed has been facing scrutiny. The Archaeologist adventurers were traditionally depicted as MightyWhitey types with a colonial attitude towards the HollywoodNatives when they're not [[ChasedByAngryNatives running away from them]]. Archeology is a complex field with a long and complicated heroes though. In older portrayals, artifacts that they collect for prophet are for museums under the authority of TheEmpire outside of their native country, practically stolen from whatever people or culture made them. Due to how risky this portrayal is, modern stories might opt for raiding an AncientTomb from a long gone group of {{Precursors}} or perhaps the archaeologists will start off wanting to find an already stolen AncientArtifact for his own fame and glory and experience a character arc where he returns it to its home culture in the end. In RealLife, most Archaeologists work closely with local authorities and cultures in order to show proper respect or even learn more about the culture they are studying, so that any artifacts they are allowed to take to museums avoid misinformation.

With respect to ValuesDissonance, many of the old portrayals of the Adventurer Archeologist — especially those in the 19th and early/mid 20th century — are falling into DiscreditedTrope territory. Not only is archaeological knowledge becoming much more exposed to the general public, but how they have been portrayed has been facing scrutiny. The Archaeologist adventurers are often depicted as MightyWhitey types with a paternalistic attitude towards the HollywoodNatives when they're not [[ChasedByAngryNatives running away from them]]. The artifacts that they collect often end up in museums that are outside of their native country, the rationale being that the natives cannot effectively protect them from theft or misuse. How this has been addressed is one of the great issues for modern portrayals.

** Heavily lampshaded in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', where Indy is seen lecturing his class that "70% of all archaeology is done in the library", and that it isn't about uncovering ancient cities or finding BuriedTreasure, and "X never, ''ever'' marks the spot". He promptly ditches the class to go on an action-packed adventure that involves pretty much all those things. At one point he even says the exact words "XMarksTheSpot!" -- though it's a Roman numeral on the floor of a library rather than the indicator on a TreasureMap. It's further lampshaded by Henry Jones Sr.'s insistence that the Grail quest isn't actually archaeology.

* Heinrich Schliemann may be the ur-example of this; in stealing, digging, and bombing his way to and through the ruins of the site he called "Troy", and then Mycenae, Schliemann essentially invented modern archaeology by negation when observers compiled a list of his activities that archaeologists ''[[DoNotDoThisCoolThing should never repeat]]''.
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** He ended up destroying the very ruins of Troy he was trying to find - and ended up finding some even older ones under them. He was convinced that Homeric Troy had to be at the [[TrueArtIsAncient bottom of the Hisarlik]] and everything above it, no matter how interesting to other archaeologists, was worthless. He even sponsored and paid for a project that demolished and cleared everything and anything that wasn't Classical from the Acropolis of Athens, destroying structures from the following Byzantine, Venetian and Ottoman periods.

''Film/JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle'': MrExposition Nigel. He is an experienced jungle field guide who knows a lot about ancient temples and is respectful about the potential misuse of the Jewel of Jumanji.

''Film/JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle'': MrExposition Nigel. He is an experienced jungle field guide who knows a lot about ancient temples and is respectful about the potential misuse of the Gem of Jumanji.

* On ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'', Dick and Mary got invited on an archaeological dig. Dick showed up dressed like Indiana Jones and waving around a bullwhip. It turns out he's WrongGenreSavvy and the dig is actually realistic.

* On ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'', Dick and Mary got invited on an archaeological dig. Dick showed up dressed like Indiana Jones and waving around a bullwhip. It turns out he's WrongGenreSavvy and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70EsCj7ho1o&t=3m41s the dig is actually realistic]].

** Vash appears again in ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'s'' "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E07QLess Q-Less]]". This time she has returned from adventuring off-screen with the omnipotent being Q. While Q tries to convince Vash that she can continue on countless wonderous adventures if she stays with him, Vash herself is mostly interested in selling the historical artifacts she has gathered for a substantial profit.

* ''Podcast/TheMagnusArchives'': An early episode, seemingly unconnected to the MythArc, revolves around an unusually realistic take on the trope: A moderately down-on-her-luck archaeology graduate encounters a treasure hunter type who is OnlyInItForTheMoney, and eagerly becomes a black marjet grave robber, culminating in an unauthorised off-the-books dig at a previously untouched tomb in a remote part of Egypt. It doesn't end well.

** Speaking of Necrons, Trazyn the Infinite scours battlefields looking for artifacts and knickknacks to add to his collection. Some of his finds have been alien monsters, powerful artifacts, and five regiments of Imperial Guard an Inquisitor "gave" to him. Most of Trazyn's collection is still alive, stored in stasis. Some of the beings in his collection are so powerful that Trazyn could turn the galaxy upside down, saving and/or dooming multiple interstellar civilizations, if he ever chose to release them.

* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' features Ezreal, the Prodigal Explorer, an adventurous, talented, but also astonishingly cocky young man who fancies himself as one of these, equipped with [[TrickedOutGloves a one-of-a-kind gauntlet]] that lets him teleport across Runeterra in search for treasure, thrills, and glory. The game frequently puts a lampshade on how [[DeconstructedCharacterArchetype as an archeologist, he kind of sucks at his job]] in spite of his powers -- he's bad at planning expeditions ([[SkewedPriorities he prioritizes his stylish pomade over]] ''[[SkewedPriorities food]]''), his "research" largely amounts to GraveRobbing from ancient crypts, and he frequently gets into legal trouble due how frequently he mishandles the magical (and often dangerous) artifacts he gets his paws on.

** Heavily lampshaded in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', where Indy is seen lecturing his class that "70% of all archaeology is done in the library", and that it isn't about uncovering {{Lost Cit|y}}ies or finding BuriedTreasure, and "X never, ''ever'' marks the spot". He promptly ditches the class to go on an action-packed adventure that involves pretty much all those things. At one point he even says the exact words "XMarksTheSpot!" -- though it's a Roman numeral on the floor of a library rather than the indicator on a TreasureMap. It's further lampshaded by Henry Jones Sr.'s insistence that the Grail quest isn't actually archaeology.

** In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', Indy is seen lecturing his class that "70% of all archaeology is done in the library," and that it isn't about uncovering {{Lost Cit|y}}ies or finding BuriedTreasure where XMarksTheSpot on the TreasureMap. He promptly ditches the class to go on an action-packed adventure that involves pretty much all those things. Even the X (although not on the map, but on the floor of an old library).
** Also in ''Last Crusade'', Indy's dad -- who's also an Adventurer Archaeologist -- doesn't really approve of his son's methods.
--->'''Henry Jones Sr.:''' ''(while escaping from Nazis)'' You call this archaeology?!

* The O'Connell Family from ''[[Film/TheMummyTrilogy The Mummy]]'' movies and [[WesternAnimation/TheMummyTheAnimatedSeries cartoon]] act like this, even though none of them are officially archaeologists (Rick O'Connell is a military defector looking for treasure, and Evy is trained as a librarian rather than an archaeologist).

'''Lawrence:''' No, Henry. Archaeologists don't get rich. Archaeology doesn't steal from the past. It opens it, so that everyone may learn from its treaures.

* ''Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles'' has, strangely, an aversion. The show was created to be educational. The DVD sets include educational documentaries about people and events in the show... and the first one has a [[HypocrisyNod documentary about what real-life archaeology is like]].

** Bedouin Shephers likewise discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls, the series of documents that overnight altered Biblical scholarship and the history of the Levant.

** Robin's mother, Nico Olvia, and a group of her fellow scholars set out on the seas of the ''Manga/OnePiece'' world to locate clues to a blank spot in history known as the Void Century -- something that the World Government wants to ''keep'' a blank spot by any means necessary, resulting in Olvia and everyone else on Robin's home island being killed and Robin herself having a bounty put on her head.

With respect to ValuesDissonance, many of the old portrayals of the Adventurer Archeologist - especially those in the 19th and early/mid 20th century- are falling into DiscreditedTrope territory. Not only is archaeological knowledge becoming much more exposed to the general public, but how they have been portrayed has been facing scrutiny. The Archaeologist adventurers are often depicted as MightyWhitey types with a paternalistic attitude towards the HollywoodNatives when they're not [[ChasedByAngryNatives running away from them]]. The artifacts that they collect often end up in museums that are outside of their native country, the rationale being that the natives cannot effectively protect them from theft or misuse. How this has been addressed is one of the great issues for modern portrayals.

* ''Literature/HandOfMercy'' features Helen Hawthorn. Technically Helen is an antiques dealer, but that doesn't stop her rifling through AncientArtifacts, and theft and trespass at Isham house.

->''"No professional position, aside from perhaps police officer and horny pizza delivery boy, is more frequently misrepresented in film than archaeologist. In movies, archaeologists are all dashing figures, risking life and limb in the pursuit of knowledge while arcane artifacts and ancient traps besiege their efforts."''

->''"You call this archaeology?!"''
-->-- '''Henry Jones Sr.''', ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': [[Manga/PhantomBlood Jonathan Joestar]] had studied archaeology with the intent to become an archaeologist. His original goal was to study the mysterious Mesoamerican Mask that belonged to his family, but ended up training in Hamon to fight off the vampires created by the mask.
* ''LightNovel/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'': One of the possible jobs members of the AdventureGuild can take involve exploring and mapping out ancient ruins for lost and rare treasures. Considering these ruins tend to be filled with ancient traps and infested/guarded by monsters, these are considered high-risk/high-reward missions. One of the most notable adventurers who prefers these types of missions is Kagali, an elf who acts as guild master Yuuki Kagurazaka's secretary in her free time and has made a name for herself exploring and mapping out the ancient ruins of the destroyed elven nation of Soma. Rimuru is impressed enough that with Yuuki's recommendation he allows her to lead an expedition into exploring the dark elf ruins located in the deceased Demon Lord Clayman's domain. [[spoiler:Of course, it turns out Kagali is well-equipped for this sort of mission because not only did she [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld live in Soma as elven royalty]], she was the one [[BeenThereShapedHistory who made the very fortress in Clayman's domain that became ruins because it was once her own domain]].]]

* ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/9577922/chapters/23321096 Waking to Another Sky]]'' is a ''Series/StargateSG1'' / ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' DeconstructionCrossover where the staff Adventurer Archaeologist points out that the pressures of fighting the AncientAstronauts force him to do his job ''completely wrong.''