"Jeff, take a look at this."
"Be right over, after I finish translating these runes."
Jeff, and his girlfriend Millie, were examining an ancient Egyptian temple dedicated to an unknown god. They could not gleam anything from the hieroglyphics, except for a few ambiguous kernels of information. Jeff was translating runes on a stone tablet resting in an altar. After deciding that it was futile, he went to see what Millie had found.
"Look as these carvings," she said when he arrived. "Don't they look a lot like the ones we found in Italy?"
"Almost identical. In fact," he added, taking out his notebook, "an old friend had identified those carvings and has something of a translation for them. I'm willing to bet that if we check those carvings against this translation, we'll find something."
He painstakingly examined each intricate carving and compared it with his notes. After perhaps 20 minutes, he had translated the better part of the carvings.
"Alright," he said at this point, "from what I can make out it says something to the effect of: 'Praise the Great Sphere; for though he stands as equal with the Spheres of Water, and Wind and Stone, he is greater than them. Praise the Great Sphere, for in doing so will you be given eternity in blissful Oblivion.' I think. I'm not sure on the 'blissful oblivion' bit."
"Weird. The carvings in the Italian ruins seem remarkably similar in content."
"Yeah. If we had the complete record of the Italian carvings, they'd probably match."
"So, so far, we've discovered bits of carvings in a ruined ancient Italian structure, and then an intact record in a temple miles away in Egypt. I think we might just be on to something."
Moving deeper into the temple, they found various carvings similar to the ones they had just translated. Every time they did, they took several photographs and emailed at least one from their cell phones to their home computers in Washington D.C.