Backdirt


On the wall, a painted female figure seems to swallow gold disks which travel through her body and are delivered intact. The archaeologist entering the antechamber notes that she resembles the Egyptian Goddess Nut, whose daily task is to swallow and protect the setting sun and rebirth it every morning. What task is required of this figure, the archaeologist wonders, whose disks are actually computer CD-ROMs and whose body arches above a room filled with scanners, digitizers, processors, and computer monitors? MORE