Antarchaeoludology !

> a bold & adventurous team of archaeologists venture to Antarctica after satellite imagery finds a massive chasm unveiled by melting ice. upon descending into this new world they discover it to be the lost ruins of an- in fact- very, very old world; Hyperborea. two amateur dighands on the site have taken it upon themselves to investigate a particular set of artifacts they had encountered & quickly surmised them to be pieces to an ancient board game! in between shifts at the digsite, they attempt to play what hasn’t been played for millenia........_________________ `"maybe the ultimate trial of kings & generals, maybe a guide through the cosmological cycles-- this recently discovered ancient classic surely was important to players in its day to be preserved in a place like this! maybe if we dig up some more pieces & these tablets that seem to have rules on them we could take on the game ourselves.. if we could only interpret what they say..."` -author classified, 2021