41
Day briefed the party before they began to search intensively around the spot where the bead and flake of gold had been found.
“Well, we found Elias’s inscription, so we’re probably standing now in the same place that he was. Let’s see what he might have found. Remember, we’re not looking for the entrance to the Great Pyramid. Local people have lived around here for three thousand years and not come across this site. It will seem insignificant to the passing glance. We’re looking for more of these significant little objects, like beads, bits of precious metal and little seal stones (which are like little lozenges of metal with carving on them). Keep looking for the other things, the stones that have been shaped by men, rocks placed deliberately as a wall, that kind of thing. Remember,
