Our adventurers have returned with an excavation team to uncover and identify the artifact. Half a day of digging shows the object to be larger than anticipated. It appears to be a circular structure of some kind. There's a window but it's impossible to see inside. What is clear is that this project is going to take much longer than expected. To be continued… See the previous image in this series here: Artifact: Discovery http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2436494 GrandmaT commented last time that it might be best to leave the artifact where it is. This is a question an archaeologist (now these folk are adventurers, not archaeologists, but they will be binging some in) must always answer and sometimes the answer is yes. The environment is the Canyon (Renderosity), modified for the trench. The river running along the canyon floor is Flinks Water plane (Renderosity), the material slightly modified and using a texture from Lands of the Sun (DAZ). The explorers and excavation team are Abbi (Renderosity) with DeRoca hair wearing the Happy Camper outfit (both DAZ), M3, with the African Safari clothing, M3 Men of the Year, Safari clothing, and Ricardo hair, M3 Men of the Year with Lone Wolf clothing (all DAZ), Bryona wearing the Desert Hunter outfit (both Renderosity) and with All Time hair (DAZ), and Sayaka with V4 Casual Wear pants (both DAZ) and Hongyu's SG3 T shirt (Renderosity) and Louise Bob Hair (Renderosity). Their transportation is the R75 Motorcycle and sidecar with trailer add-on (DAZ) and a retextured Ford T 1917 Ambulance (Renderosity). Zoë is the Millennium Cat (DAZ). Two condors (DAZ) soar overhead. Various tools around the excavation are from the Jeep J8 Bundle (Renderosity), Potting Shed, and Safari Camp (both DAZ) Composed and rendered in Poser 9, post-processed for some compositing and some poke through.