The archeologist from Argentina

- a fictional short story

My name is Basti and I am an archeologist from Argentina.

Three days ago the Iraq government tried to blow up Cairo, the capital of Egypt. Fortunately the missile missed and landed just south of the city near an oasis.

My team of explorers and I were at the oasis when the missile landed. The missile made a huge explosion, making all the dust go up into the air.

When the dust finally settled we could see a huge crater. We got onto our quadbikes and drove towards the crater. When we got there we saw the tip of a pyramid in the middle of the crater, and, amazingly, it was not damaged.

Anyway we are now getting funds from a company called Egyptian Discoveries. After getting a permit from the Egyptian government to dig there, we hired some machinery to help us dig up the pyramid. We then immediately flew back to where the pyramid was buried.

We wanted to go into the pyramid and we did not want to wait for it to be dug up. So we got a rocket launcher and blew a hole in the top of the pyramid.

We went over to the pyramid and looked down the hole we had made in the top. It was a long way down. One of our team members stayed on the surface and the rest of us jumped in and opened our parachutes. Unfortunately one of our team members forgot to open his parachute and he hit the bottom like a falling boulder! The rest of us landed safely. Everywhere we looked we could see gold and in the middle of it all was the pharaoh’s coffin.

We took some treasures and artifacts and left the pyramid. Our friend at the top threw down a rope and we climbed up. When we got to the top an Egyptian with a gun was waiting for us. He said that we must put the treasure back. We told him that we had a permit from the government. He did not care. He charged at me. I casually sidestepped him and tripped him. He fell right into the hole in the pyramid.

I felt very happy on my way home until the Egyptian government suddenly thought that they should have the treasure. So we gave Iraq a bigger missile. In less than an hour Cairo was blown up. We were all happy because we had found some gold and an Egyptian pyramid.

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