[ WP ] Modern civilization is wiped out , but in the future legends remain of the highly-advanced ancient civilization .

Elmer had uncovered another one of the strange temples. This one was in the middle of the Dessert of Atlanta. The temples where simple, giant boxes. Filled with giant monoliths and strange tubes. Elmer said that these were temples of knowledge, commerce, and communication. The ancients did everything at these temples. 
 
 After clearing the trees and growth out of the way, we found the door. It was a small gray one-person door. 
 
 `` If these temples were as important as you say, how could everyone get in an out through such a small door?'' I asked. 
 
 `` Nobody actually went to these temples. Only a few monks who cleaned them and maintained them.'' Elmer said. 
 
 `` You said they did everything at these temples? They traded, they learned, they taught. How did they do that without coming to them?''. I was having a hard time understanding Elmer. He was very smart, but sometimes he did n't make sense. 
 
 `` I'm not exactly sure, but I think they had little shrines in their house, or prayer books. They used the shrine through those.'' He said. 
 
 `` I thought you did n't believe in magic.'' I retorted. He did n't reply. 
 
 I used an axe to break the lock on the door. Elmer told me this was the largest temple he had ever seen. There had to be thousands of the monoliths. Each of the monoliths had about fifty drawers on the front, and a small symbol on the front of each drawer. 
 
 We went to the back of the temple. There was a giant tank next to a strange looking machine. Elmer said that if we could make the machine work, the temple would become active. He shook the tank, it was filled with a foul smelling liquid. He pulled a crank on the machine. It made a loud growling sound, but then it sputtered and stopped. After he twisted some nobs on the machine and pulled the crank again, the machine started growling again and it did n't stop. 
 
 The monoliths lit up as if there were hundreds of fireflies on each of them. We went to a small room off to the side of temple. In this room there where small shrines, with dark pieces of glass, windows to nowhere, sitting on top of each of them. Elmer said the monks that lived here, called `` techs'', would use these pieces of glass to see what was happening in the temple. 
 
 Elmer pushed a button on one of the shrines. He started touching some strange jewels on it. They made a clacking sound as he touched them. 
 
 `` This is it. We've found it. This was their temple of knowledge.'' 
 
 I looked at the window to nowhere on the shrine. It was lit up, and showing pictures. At the top of the picture, was the word `` Wikipedia''. 

