Its claim to fame in pop culture is its depiction as the site of the Holy Grail in the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, starring Harrison Ford in the title role, reports the Daily Star.

Archaeologists are buzzing with the astonishing claim that they may have discovered Jesus' Holy Grail cup beneath Jordan's renowned Al Khazneh, famously depicted as a temple in Indiana Jones and ...

As the author Niall Edworthy notes, "a young medievalist — Otto Rahn — was dispatched to find the Holy Grail by the Ahnenerbe, a pseudoscientific branch of the SS established in 1935.