Author's Notes: So... I'm not sure more than four or so people are actually reading or enjoying this, but I'll keep going anyway... just for giggles. ;)
"This is interesting." Daniel said to no one in particular.
Sam walked over from where she'd just begun pulling out equipment for soil testing. "What is it?" she questioned, taking a look at whatever it was on the pillar that Daniel was so intent upon.
"Well, there is Classical Greek, like I thought," he waved a hand over the text, "but there are other languages as well." Daniel began walking around to the other sides of the pillar. "I couldn't see them because of the angle of the camera on the images that were sent back from the UAV."
"How many others?" Sam questioned, following him around.
Daniel stopped when he came back to his starting point, wrapping one arm around his body, while the other gestured vaguely toward the rest of the structure. "Well, assuming there's no repeating pattern, there's one language on each side of each pillar..."
"There are six pillars." Sam followed his train of thought.
"Seven, counting the one in the middle." Daniel wrapped the other arm around himself, turning to face her.
"Twenty-eight different languages." Sam stated.
Daniel nodded, then bent down to pick up his journal. "It looks like it."
"Maybe they all say the same thing?" Sam offered.
"No." Daniel smiled at her effort. "It doesn't look like it."
"Well, considering the number of languages you speak, maybe it won't be so bad."
"Well, I'm thinking it's probably not going to be a lot of help." Daniel dismissed. "It looks like most of them will be ancient, dead languages." He pointed back to the pillar where he'd begun, "This is classical Greek," indicating the other three sides, "something similar to biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, Akkadian..." and looked back at Sam. "This is gonna take some time."
Sam smiled encouragingly. "I'll get out of your way."