Artifact

At first, we couldn’t see what it was. I mean, with all this damn fog you couldn’t see much at all…

But, as we got closer, what was just a dark blurry form started to take shape. Still, it took us forever to get close enough to appreciate the thing for real.

God, was it old! There was some extensive natural damage, whole parts of the structure missing here and there. One side looked like it had been chewed on by some huge mechanical creature, tooth marks still clearly visible after all these years. And yet… it was unmistakably impressive.

It was what we were looking for all along. It was The Relic.

Sty © Igor Bissikalo

When, back in 1904, this sculpture had been accidentally excavated in some forgotten region of Sahara, it has immediately been affectionately called the Ugly Booch of Sty or simply Sty.

What this artyfact depicts is anyone’s guess although some may say it looks like a pig alien or perhaps an alien pig.

Whatever it was, we might never know for sure – this precious object has been stolen during the Great Pumpkin robbery of 1931 and has never been seen again.