The arival

August 3rd, 2026, 8:52pm

We are headed to the dig site located on an isolated island near the northern west coast of Greenland. There are five of us *, ** , *** , **** and me. The dig site itself is relatively new, only 3 months old. The dig site is run by the University of Greenland, every month it accepts a team of up to 10 researchers. My team and I were accepted to come and stay for a month after applying. The dig site focuses on a newly-found structure spanning deep underground on this isolated island. The structure is quite interesting, seeing it is quite a miracle of architecture, spanning an unknown depth but a square km on the surface. Seeing the structure has only been observed for the past three months, and with the constant swapping in and out of teams, there has been quite little uncovered about what significance it holds. Among the scientific community, the most accepted theory is that it is a religious temple. After getting flown in by helicopter from the mainland I got to see the structure from outside. The conditions are extremely frigid, snow covers everything, and very few people are actually present at the site itself; most tasks are automated now. The structure is completely uncovered of snow and seems to be consistently plowed; luckily, it seems it is automated as well. At a first glance from the helicopter window, the structure is huge. At the surface the structure looks like just a huge square stone platform with a large opening in the middle as an entrance. The living quarters were about a couple hundred meters from the structure. They look almost like shipping containers. The island itself is only a couple kilometers in diameter, so there is not much else on it besides the structure and living quarters.

When we arrived, we had an opportunity to talk with the departing group, which was quite small, only 2 people. They gave us some tips on the living conditions, and I noted some things down:

The coffee machine should be cleaned after using, otherwise the coffee tastes horrible

Never sleep in the structure

Never open the doors to the outside fully, because the hinges lock into place fully open and it is hard to close the door

They also gave some pretty interesting info on the structure itself. It seems the structure is assumed to go down very deep into the ground, but they are not certain how far down. The structure is split into levels, each level being a series of corridors and pathways so hard to navigate without a map it's like a labyrinth. They seem to refer to each level as a number, starting with one as the top level and counting up the farther down you go. The following would be level 2, the next one as 3, and so on. There is a digital database used to record the tunnels, making it easier to navigate. Inside the structure there is writing and thousands of murals inscribed into the walls, which are being digitized as well. My group actually came to work mostly on these murals and inscriptions, whereas the previous groups were mostly field crew and mapping. Sadly I couldn't get much info from the previous group on the murals or inscriptions, but they did tell us about this orb. The only form of color used in the entire structure is the purple used in the depiction of this orb. The orb, according to them, is depicted in the majority of the murals. Other than just the murals, they did bring up some important questions, including that of how it is possible to build such a big structure when we don't even have the knowledge or ability in the modern day. The other very important question is where did they get all the materials for the structure? The entire structure is fascinating.

August 4th, 8:17 pm

On our first day of work, we got a bunch of stuff done. * and **** are currently on duty to go in and digitize some of the murals so the rest of us can work on them from the offices in the living quarters. This orb that the previous group told us about is quite something; it really does appear in so many of these murals. The orb in most of the murals digitized so far is depicted as a sort of god, placed above humans, and in some cases it seems it is worshiped. I am not quite sure if the orb is supposed to be a deity or an icon or something else. The language in the structure surprisingly is quite similar to cuneiform used by the Sumerians, a people who lived in Mesopotamia, or modern-day Iraq. Cuneiform is also quite interesting because it is one of the first ever recorded writing systems. The writing here does have some differences, though. First, the characters are carved into stone instead of made through depressions on clay tablets. It is also much more complex; the biggest difference is depending on how deep the character is carved into the stone, the word may have a different meaning. This makes it harder to digitize because you have to scan the inscriptions in 3D instead of just taking a picture to make sure you get the depth of the characters. I have observed that the people had an odd representation of themselves. They had limbs that are too long in every single recorded mural I can find. It just looks kind of off. The murals are truly fascinating with the amount of detail they have and the tools, they must have had incredible craftsmen to be able to reach such detail. However, you do have to remember that the murals are still just carvings out of rock, so it might be hard to get the proportions of a human just right. Arms that are a bit too long are better than cave man stick figures. To be honest it's kind of mind-blowing, the scale of the structure. There are so many murals to the point that one person could spend their entire life looking at all of them.