We descended down to the excavation site in one of the personnel lifts. Mitsiro, and one of his assistants, and me. The only one carrying any sort of weapon was the assistant, he brought a machete. We all had flashlights, and sensors.
The lift going down is a cage, open to the rock outside that seems to creep up while in fact it is you that is going down. It seemed like ages going down, it goes very slowly. At the bottom, the elevator opens up to an access shaft, like a mining tunnel, going towards the edge of the tomb wall.
The wall is made of some sort of stainless steel, or a similar metal that resists oxidation, it was still shiny. It has been breached: a laser welded circular opening provides access to the inner part of the structure.
When we entered the tomb though the breach, it was pitch dark. Switching on our lights we illuminated a passageway, and to our surprise, there was a large dog growling at us, in the tunnel.
That is impossible. No-one let a dog down here, none of the workers reported a dog, and there is no way a dog survived the millennia that this complex was closed off. The assistant tried to chase the dog away, swinging his machete at the animal [live log upload interrupted]
