Twilight Sparkle and Lyra Heartstrings are on an archeology expedition when a well preserved artifact from a long extinct ancient race is uncovered. What follows is Twilight's analysis and initial report.

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Originally submitted on another website [LINK] as part of a writing challenge where the author had to work a particular object/substance into a short story featuring whatever fandom they wanted, and so naturally I chose MLP. The end result was (just) over the 1K word minimum for FiMFiction, so I decided to post it here. I made a slight change in the line ordering in the last portion of the story but it's otherwise the exact same story I originally posted on the other website.