Crouched in a corner, covered in dust and breathing heavily in the musty air, a woman curses under her breath. The leader of the archeological dig, she never stays behind to see what others have done, she's always in the thick of things. Annoying her crew. Like now.

"It's not right, where the hell is everything? Even if they buried it, it should still be right here. Unless it was transported. Damn, it was right here!"

She came from a distinguished family of treasure seekers, finders and donators. She was usually right about digs. This time she was wrong, but no one could tell her that. They weren't even sure the cartouche she was looking for ever existed. There was no record of it.

She finally sat back on her haunches and stared at the wall.

No one was really concerned. Sasha was demanding and always found interesting things, so no one really minded the extra work. She was a pain in the butt, but she paid well and covered all her debts. She came from a family corporation and when a dig or find site didn't work out, everyone in country got paid, and everyone else went back to New York to work for the family. Simple.

So back to New York it was. But some people didn't keep their mouths shut. Rumors began. Sasha Arises had lost her touch; she was creating false reports of hieroglyphs to get attention; and quietly there began the whispers that Sasha believed someone had magically transported things out of Giza. That Sasha believed in aliens.

Daniel Jackson sat at his desk, surrounded by piles of open books. Thewhiteboard behind him had indecipherable glyphs and notations long since ignored. He was immersed in an email he'd gotten from a colleague. It seemed that Daniel was no longer alone in the long sneered at theory of aliens in Egypt. Shockingly enough the most recent recipient of criticism from the archeological community was one of the Arises.

The Arises family rose to archaeological prominence about a hundred years earlier with digs in Egypt, Italy, Siberia and Russia. They were finders of sunken ships, papyrus scrolls of poetry, and even some documents long lost beneath an ancient church implicating Bishop Mare in a 17th century of conspiracy to kill the pope.

Just recently Daniel had heard of the Arises family in connection with a dig one of the younger sons wanted to do. He'd wanted to do a dig in Antarctica, which the Russian authorities, the president and Hammond all had a hand in shutting down. So here was another of the youngest generation who was popping up on the SGC radar screen.

He decided that while it might seem like coincidence, he was not going to ignore it. He printed out the email and went to find Jack.

"…yes, sir. No, sir. Ya. Okay." Jack hung up the phone with an urge to roll his eyes, but belayed that as Daniel poked his head in to the office.

"Daniel, do you have any idea what a atef crown is?"

"Well, yes, the Atef crown was worn by Osiris, the king of the dead. It was separated into colors representing parts of Egypt. One of which was Busiris, which is our planetary version of Abydos. Why? What's up?"

"There's an archaeologist who claims that he found an atef crown in Giza. The problem is that the site was registered to a family named Arise.."

"Arises, Jack"

"… but the man claiming it isn't part of that family. Meanwhile, he wants it, our pals in the Egyptian government want it, the Arise family

"Arises, Jack"

"…wants it, and I'm told that it's made of an unknown metal that we have a large quantity of spinning as we speak."

The sounds of the Stargate opening were clear. SG-7 was back.

"You want to go out there and dig around? Take Teal'c: make it a class trip."

"You know, I was just coming down here to talk to you about the Arises family. One of the next generation just applied for and was shot down over a dig over Antarctica and another is being castigated by the community for believing aliens went to Egypt."

"Now that sounds familiar."

"And a bit too coincidental. The crown was found on their site, but not by them? That's odd. Why would they go so far and then stop? Why would they leave the site open to someone else going in? How could they not have known that the crown was there? These people are too good to miss this."

"Get out there. Take Teal'c."