Although it wasn't the temple she was looking for, and she wasn't very interested in excavating this site, Perfikot still patiently tolerated the scholars leading the archaeological team to conduct a thorough excavation of the entire temple.
She stood beside the temple's broken pillars, watching the scholars carefully direct the workers to clean each inscribed stone slab and document every detail of the murals.
A cold wind carried fine ice crystals through the temple's gaps, turning the workers' breath into frost in the frigid air, but the scholars seemed oblivious to the cold, wholly engrossed in deciphering the ancient symbols.
Just as Perfikot was about to lose her patience, they indeed discovered a buried secret chamber in the temple's rear hall.
The entire chamber had long been flooded by seeped groundwater, now completely frozen within thick layers of ice, like a massive amber sealing unknown secrets.
