"But look at these footprints. Hundreds of people came through here not long ago. This is a tourist area." Barry pointed at the ground by the canyon entrance and spoke to the two walking ahead of him. "And the shop where I bought something earlier really isn't far away."
"So?" Su Ming turned to look at him. Of course, he had seen the footprints on the ground too. They were as dense as ants on the move. Footprints would not last long in the sand—at most, they were half an hour old.
Barry appeared beside him in a flash of lightning. "So I think that if someone was throwing a strange party inside the temple, wouldn't it be noticed?"
Bliss used her Bat-Cape to cover the lower half of her face as the windblown sand kept forcing its way into her nose and mouth. "I can tell you one bat fact: Egyptians were exceptionally skilled at underground construction."
Su Ming patted Barry on the shoulder as well, slinging an arm around him and leading him onward. "The parts of Egyptian pyramids aboveground were actually only two-thirds of the whole. Take the Great Pyramid of Giza, for example. Pharaoh's burial chamber was two hundred feet underground, completely surrounded by massive stones. It wasn't buried by windblown sand."
"Mayan pyramids were formed by stacking stones aboveground, but Ancient Egyptians were different. They excavated and built underground as well, and that technique was also applied to temples." Bliss continued toward the temple without looking back. "I thought you would have figured that out when we reached the burial chambers after visiting so many pyramids."
"Uh, it was pitch-black and freezing, so..."
As Barry spoke, he stuffed the sandwich into his mouth. Su Ming figured he had probably swallowed quite a bit of sand