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photographing the walls of the chamber, the bottom of the three in the Great Pyramid. Although extensively documented, some of the hieroglyphics on the wall had never been deciphered.
    The notebook in his lap was covered with his scribblings, and he had been centered totally on his work, excited by the possibility that there might be some linguistic connection between some of the panels of hieroglyphics here and newly found panels in Mexico. Nabinger did not concern himself with how such a connection could be, he just wanted to decipher what he had. And so far, a very strange message was being revealed to him, word by laborious word. The importance of the MRI was diminishing with every minute he studied the writings.
    A year ago Nabinger had made some startling discoveries that he had kept to himself. It had always been accepted that there were certain panels or tablets of markings at Egyptian sites that were not classical hieroglyphics but appeared to be some earlier picture language called "high runes." While such sites were few--too few to provide a database sufficient to allow a scientific attempt at translation--enough had been found to cause some interest.
    What Nabinger had stumbled across were pictures of similar high runes from a site in South America. After a year of very hard work over the few samples available—combining them with those from Egypt--he believed he had manage to decode a couple of dozen words and symbols. He needed more samples, though, in order to feel comfortable that the little he had achieved was valid. For all he knew, his translation could be totally false and he had been working with gibberish.
    Kaji snapped some commands in Arabic and the laborers rose to their feet and disappeared back up the corridor.
    Nabinger cursed and put his notebook down. "Listen here, Kaji, I've paid--"
    "It is all right, Professor," Kaji said, holding up a hand roughened by a lifetime of manual labor. He spoke almost perfect English with a slight British accent--a surprise to Nabinger, who was often exasperated by the Egyptian tactic of retreating behind a pretended ignorance of English to avoid work. "I have given them a break outside. They will be back in an hour." He looked at the MRI machine and smiled, a gold tooth gleaming in the front of his mouth. "We are not having much luck, yes?"
    "No, we're not," Nabinger said, used to the strange syntax.
    "Professor Hammond did not have much luck with his machines, either, in 1976,"
    Kaji noted.
    "You were with Hammond?" Nabinger asked. He had read Hammond's report in the archives of the Royal Museum in London. It had not been published due to the failure to discover anything. Of course, Nabinger had noted at the time, Hammond had discovered something.
    He had discovered that there was residual radiation inside the pyramids that shouldn't be there.
    "I have been here many times," Kaji said. "In all the pyramids. Also many times in the Valley of the Kings. I spent years in the desert to the south before the waters from the dam covered it. I have led many parties of laborers and watched many strange things at sites."
    "Did Hammond have any guesses why his machine didn't work?" Nabinger asked.
    "Alas, no." Kaji sighed dramatically and ran his hand lightly over the control panel of the MRI, getting Welcher's attention. "Such a machine is expensive, is it not?"

    "Yes, it--" Welcher halted as Nabinger shook his head, now partially seeing where this was leading.
    Kaji smiled. "Ah, Hammond, he had no readings. His man on the machine, he, too, said radiation. Hammond did not believe it. But the machine, it would not lie, would it?"
    He looked at Welcher. "Your machine, it would not lie, would it?"
    Welcher remained quiet.
    "If the machine does not lie," Nabinger said, "then something must be causing the readings."
    "Or something was once here that still causes the readings," Kaji said. He turned and headed back toward the other side of the chamber, where a large stone