Nazca, Peru

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After leaving the library, and escaping the Russian agents, all three of them went to Indy's house, so he can read the letters. He was going through a book of famous conquistadors.

"Who is that?" Mutt asked, nodding to a picture of a man with gray facial hair.

"Francisco de Orellana," Indy replied. "The conquistador."

"Remember the guy who got lost looking for the skull?" Jack asked her brother.

"Just as I thought," Indy said, laying the pages on the book.

He pointed to some strange markings in the top left corner of the page.

"Koihoma."

"Isn't it an extinct Latin American language?" Jack asked.

"Yes," Indy nodded. "Pre-Columbian syllabic base."

He then pointed to the markings on the page again.

"Diagonal stresses on the ideograms, definitely Koihoma."

"You speak it?" Mutt asked.

"Nobody speaks it," Jack said, looking to Indy for conformation, which he nodded. "It hasn't been heard aloud in 3,000 years."

"I might be able to read a bit though if I walk it through Mayan first," Indy said, still looking at the pages.

"You know," Mutt said, walking away from his sister, so she won't hit him for his next comment. "For an old man, you ain't bad in a fight."

"Mutt!" Jack hissed, disapproving.

"Thanks a lot," Indy replied, barely paying him any attention.

"What are you, like, 80?" Mutt asked.

When he wasn't looking, Jack walked up behind him, and slapped him upside the head, for being rude. When Indy threw the pages on the book, she thought he was mad, until he looked at them with a smile.

"It's a riddle," Indy told them.

They looked at him.

"Leave it to Ox to write a riddle in a dead language."

As he held the paper, Jack walked behind the couch to try and read it as well.

"Follow the lines in the earth only gods can read," Indy said, looking at the ancient language in the book, making sure he wasn't mistaken. "Which lead to Orellana's cradle guarded by the living dead.

"He's talking about the Nazca lines," Jack spoke, a bit confused by the riddle.

"What are those?" Mutt asked.

Indy got off the couch, and walked to the bookshelf, looking for a specific book. Jack followed and stood by her brother.

"They're geoglyphs," Jack answered, while Indy was finding the right page. "They're giant ancient drawings carved into the ground in the desert of Peru."

Indy nodded, as he laid the book down so they can all see. They were four pictures on the pages. One looks like a monkey, the second looks like a hummingbird, and the fourth was an ant or spider.

"From the ground, they don't look like anything," Indy began.

"But from the sky," Jack trailed off.

"Only the gods can read them, because only gods live up there," Indy said, pointing up at the sky.

Indy turned the page.

"Oxley's telling us that the skull is in Nazca, Peru," Jack said, as Indy pointed to its location.

Once they knew where they were going, they packed up what they needed, and went to the airport. Getting on a plane, the three of them were off. They stopped in Havana, Cuba, getting on another plane, to Mexico City, in Mexico. There, they got on a small cargo plane and flew to Cusco, Peru.

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