When Elena's archaeological brush swept across the basalt surface, silver-white liquid suddenly seeped from the eye sockets of a Maya sun god relief. The metallic droplets, with their perfect surface tension, arranged themselves into a dot-matrix pattern across the stele. The moment she instinctively touched them with her protective glove, the entire Teotihuacan pyramid complex began emitting a high-pitched buzz.
"It's binary!" Assistant Carlos suddenly cried out, staring at the code scrolling across the translator. "This inscription about Kukulkan, the Feathered Serpent God... The date at the end is yesterday!"
