Obviously the first team of researchers happened upon it by accident, but I think it was more likely that they didn't actually know they need 7. I mean, here they've got six symbols that whirr and light up and don't do anything. I'd think they would start with reordering those 6 glyphs, or trying out patterns of one clockwise from the glyph on the coverstone or something like that. And while they figured out that part of the code might be missing where it broke, they couldn't know that it was one single glyph, or two, or a code for figuring out how to get the first six to work.
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Date: 2006-06-08 07:07 pm (UTC)