A team of archeologists open a tomb for the first time in thousands of years . On one of the walls your main character notices a small inscription that resembles a modern QR code .

For the first time since ancient workers had sealed it, light flowed into the tomb. Gold peaked out from under blankets of dust and sand, countless statues of animal headed Gods stood at attention, and at the center of the room was a sarcophagus that held a long dead priest. 
 
 Doctor Henry Riley, an archaeologist from Cambridge, was the first to step into the tomb. Childhood wonder filled his eyes and his mouth hung open. He'd done it. He'd finally done it. 
 
 Hieroglyphics and pictograms lined every wall just as he had imagined. He had found the clues amongst ancient parchments. A few vague hints that had been over looked by everyone else but him. Colleagues and students alike had laughed behind his back when what he was researching spread about the school. 
 
 Hidden tombs and secret treasure were schoolboy fictions; and those that had been secret were found and raided long before any scholars found them. The real world was not so exciting. 
 
 Or so they had said. 
 
 Henry followed the clues to the Valley of the Kings and into a long since emptied tomb. There he had solved the final riddle and his reward was a revelation. One wall was not a wall. But a door. 
 
 He was assured fame and tenure and wealth. He did not care. Curiosity was what drove him. 
 
 `` I've done it.'' 
 
 His assistants took photos, set up lights and started an inventory of the items. It was the biggest find in centuries, but it would become known for more than it's gold and the mystery to find it. 
 
 A student assistant called Melissa Welsh had been assigned the responsibility of documenting the hieroglyphs. She would take a photo that would become as recognizable to many as Da Vinci's universal man. 
 
 A Pharaoh and a priest faced each other, the shining sun between them. The ancient words told of friendship and betrayal, exaggerated to extremes as seemed normal for ancient Egypt. 
 
 The story did not mention the QR Code that was at the Sun's center. 
 
 * * * 
 
 Reception was poor in the tomb and so the solution was to scan a photo of the QR code from outside the tomb. Dr Riley allowed his team to leave and watch the momentous moment. He did not think it important. To him, the blocky shape was merely a coincidence, but their excitement afforded him an opportunity to be alone with his discovery; so, as the team fought for a better view outside in the sand, Henry placed his hands on the sarcophagus. 
 
 It was golden and intricate. He stared at the sculpted face. 
 
 A printout of the photo was rushed into the waiting hands of Melissa, she lifted her phone to it. 
 
 There was something about the face. Something off. 
 
 She scanned the photo, her phone thought for a moment, then turned off. 
 
 The lights in the tomb flickered and went out. The tomb door rolled shut. Dr Riley screamed. In the last second of outside light, Henry had seen the golden face open it's eyes. 
 
 Any attempts to open the door failed and so, faced with no other option, it was cut out by Dr Riley's worried team. They found nothing but the rocks and sand into which the outer tomb had been buried. 

