The Fifth Element Archaeology

Archaeologists in the media are more often then not portrayed as young fairly good-looking men dressed for an adventure where ultimately they will be the heroes. They will deliver the treasure and rescue the young beautiful damsel in distress, which is not the case in the film The Fifth Element. The movie opens with an older man who has a scruffy white beard and white hair with a thick European accent on an excavation. He is in what seems to be either an old Egyptian cave or pyramid deciphering old drawings and inscriptions. He has a minimal staff, which includes a young boy holding a mirror against the sun as a source of light and a young man sketching what is supposedly on the walls. No women are present in this scene. There is no appearance of a woman
There seems to be a monk who is protecting this secret that now has been discovered. He must keeps this discovery a secret because of its importance and the only way he can is to kill the people who now know of this information. He attempts to kill the archaeologist by poisoning his water but he fails in the attempt. While the monk is trying to figure out what to do and the old man is studying the inscriptions a ship descends outside the cave they are excavating, in a matter of minutes the cave has been filled with creatures that the monk calls the "divine ones". They have come to take the fifth element and the stones because it is no longer safe for them to be kept there. They declare that they will bring it back in three hundred years when it will be needed to fight the evil that is said to come every five thousand years. During this scene the archaeologist dies. It is not made clear if he is called by one of the "divine ones" or if he dies of shock and fright. At the close of the scene the monk swears that he will pass the knowledge he has carried about the fifth element down to the next