Belloq's methods only resulted in angering the locals, and he left them distrustful of all archaeologists. Fired, Belloq became a mercenary to whomever could afford him.Īt some point in his career, Belloq journeyed to Estray in the Orkney Islands where the ruins were believed to hold the lost treasure of tenth century Viking pirate Magnus Redhand. He held the position for under a year as he became suspect in the funding of a grave robbing expedition in Persia which led to the deaths of several of the museum's employees and a British archaeologist. His accolade and inherited wealth bought him a job at the Louvre in Paris as an assistant curator. As a result, he was awarded the Archaeological Society Prize with Jones unable to prove the theft. Returning to the university, Belloq came across a paper on stratigraphy by Jones and plagiarized the work. However, the act made Belloq a contact with dealers on the black market. In August 1922, the two met at an archaeological dig at Ur in Iraq where Belloq absconded with several artifacts and sold them off, damaging the reputation of Doctor Andrés Uribe in the process. Belloq grew up admiring France's most acclaimed archaeologists and made it his mission to become one himself by enrolling at the Sorbonne where a fellow student named Indiana Jones was studying linguistics. He had at least one sibling, a brother named Claude Belloq. René Emile Belloq was born in Marseilles, France to a wealthy wine making family at Forteresse Malevil, and claimed to be a relative of Jean Lafitte. Like Jones, Belloq scoured the globe for antiquities, but would rather sell them for his own profit instead of giving them to a museum as Indy did. Belloq was a French archaeologist who took credit for Indiana's findings. Doctor Rene Belloq is the main antagonist in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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