“Astonishing,” Dr. Alice Gelding said, squinting through a high-powered magnifying glass at the walls of an ancient Egyptian chamber. Alice’s long brunette hair, grey with dust, tucked away from her round face. Sweat dribbled from every pore, caking mud on already drying layers of dirt.

            “What did you find, doctor?” her colleague, Dr. Tim Shoshlefski, asked as he positioned a large spotlight on Alice’s position of the dig. He was tiny by every measure that could apply: tiny eyes, t...