Three archaeological/treasure news articles stand out with extra interest today. With the upcoming Indiana Jones movie, a timely article discusses some of the real differences between "movies" and archaeological reality.

Ironically, there’s an article about German researchers claiming to have found the remains of the palace of the Queen of Sheba — and an altar that may have held the Ark.

And finally, in another story, treasure hunters find two pieces of gem-stuffed gold jewelry on a shipwreck. Here are brief article descriptions and links…

"Indiana Jones managed to retrieve the trinket he was after in the opening moments of “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” He pretty much wrecked everything else in the ancient South American temple where the little gold idol had rested for millennia."

With the opening of that paragraph by an Associated Press article, you can pretty much deduce where their article, ‘Indiana Jones’: Real archaeologists don’t have whips, goes. From movies to reality, it’s an interesting read.

An article from Times Online reports that archaeologists claim to have found the palace of the Queen of Sheba, an altar that may have held the Ark of the Covenant. No, this isn’t a movie script. It’s real reporting.

The discovery was announced by the University of Hamburg, and its obviously brought out the archaeological skeptics.

Professor Helmut Ziegert, of the archaeological institute at the university, has been supervising a dig in Aksum, northern Ethiopia, since 1999.

From the dating, its position and the details that we have found, I am sure that this is the palace,” he said. The palace, that is, of the Queen of Sheba, who is believed to have lived in the 10th century BC.

For more, read the entire article, The lost Ark: are the Germans on its trail?

And for the final article, treasure hunters find gem-studded jewelry…

Capt. Greg Bounds, master of the salvage ship MV Gold Hound and a Mel Fisher’s Treasure subcontractor, found two pieces of gem-studded gold jewelry on Sunday at the 1715 fleet shipwreck site known as “Corrigans."

For more, check out the Scripps article entitled Treasure hunters strike gold, find gem-studded jewelry off Indian River County.