Ziggurat

A short story about obscured architecture.

Sometime in the near future, a group of geologists make a shocking and puzzling discovery — one of the largest mountains in North America is in fact not a mountain at all, but a huge megalithic pyramid encrusted with a surface of earth and trees, built in the appearance of a natural geologic formation, in patterns of non-repeating fractal algorithms and Mandelbrot geometries. This brings many scholars to question: how many other mountains the world over are actually megalithic structures intentionally wrought to look like mountains? In the ensuing years, scientists and archeologists try to find a way into the mountain-pyramid, yet all their efforts are to no avail. The stone is made of a substance too thick and resilient to be broken asunder by any of the technologies modern man has at his disposal.

And so the whole world wonders, what is inside the mountain?