Keep Your Eyes Open!

In 2026, the celebrated Russian archaeologist Dmitry Ivanovich Kozlov made a sensational discovery: in a cave on a deserted island, he found a mummified human body.

When Kozlov heatedly tried to convince his colleagues that, on one of the uninhabited islands of Oceania, some “super-creatures” had once lived, people only skeptically tapped their forefinger at their temple in response. But the scholar was obsessed with this place and the stories connected to it. Together with a scientific team, he carried out long excavations—and, contrary to expectations, they didn’t find bones, but a mummy: a dried-out human body. The carefully packed find, as if a most fragile relic, was gently brought to Moscow, to the Institute of Archaeology…