Marya Smirnova
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| CHARACTER | |
| Marya Smirnova | |
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| Gender | Female |
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Reporter |
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Marya Smirnova was a journalist for the Globe of New York.
Smirnova covered Howard Carter's unearthing of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1923. Afterward, Indiana Jones encouraged her to follow him to the Great Pyramid of Giza, where she was nearly sacrificed by a mad devotee of the pharaoh Kheops.
In 1933, her stories on Gandhi garnered international attention. While in India, she discovered a ancient, reconstructed Thuggee temple near Bhubaneshwar and called upon Jones to help her investigate.
[edit] Behind the scenes
Marya was apparently named after the technical director of Bagheera, the French company that published the comic books in which she appears.
