Professor Zhang stroked his beard as he looked at the sandy pit. This was certainly the discovery of the century. At last they had found it.
" Do you think what I am thinking?", he asked professor Kahn.
The dark man nodded.
" This could very well be the mythical city. Come, let me show you what we have found so far. There are some extraordinary things."
Kahn guided Zhang to a small building a little aside from the site and showed him in.
He pointed at a piece of coloured glass.
" You know what I think that is?"
" The window of some temple?"
" Not just some temple. I think it's a part of Westminster Abbey!"
" You're kidding me?"
" No realy. This is the window that the great Churchill must have looked through when the German fleet appeared in the skies."
Zhang leant forward and opened his mouth.
" This is... Fascinating... Do you realy think that..."
" 87% sure. We have found some other splinters, but they're still busy putting them together. But let me show you what else we've got."
He walked to a table where numerous pieces of dirty and rusty metal were scattered.
" This, dear collegue, is the railing of either the Millenium Bridge or the Tower Bridge."
Zhang tapped one of the bars.
" Let's not jump to conclusions. Where did you find these?"
" At the bank of the river. They were probably washed away by the great flood of 2253, which destroyed the city. Our experts are 76% certain these were part of a bridge and they date them somewhere between 1700 and 2100."
" It would be realy exciting if they were indeed from one of those bridges."

"But now..."
Kahn smiled mysteriously.
" Now the highlight of this show. Follow me."
They went to a dimly lit room. At one of the large tables there was something that was covered by a white sheet. Kahn turned on the light and pressed a finger against his lips.
" Lo and behold."

He pulled the cloth off the table and revealed the remains of a statue. Stone arms and legs were arranged around a torso. The head was damaged and the feet were missing, but still Zhang could make out that it represented a 19th century warlord.
" Well?"
" Splendid."
" But what do you think this is?"
" A statue of some general."
" Not just some general, my dear Zhang, not just some general. This, dear collegue is Admiral Nelson!"
" You mean the Nelson of Trafalgar?"
" That's him."
" No?"
" Amazing."

Zhang studied the remains carefully and touched them.
" Is this the statue of the collumn?"
" We think so. And you know what? We think it used to be painted in all kinds of strange colours, a red uniform, auburn hair, blue eyes. We are trying to reconstruct it."

Zhang frowned.
" That's nonsense. Do you realy believe such stories? You shouldn't confuse myth with history my dear Khan."
" But they used to paint their statues, didn't they?"
" Oh, no doubt about that. I won't be surprised if the statue on Nelson's collumn was brightly coloured, but I mean yellow hair and blue eyes. Do you realy believe that anyone could have had auburn hair and blue eyes? That's just a poetic way to say healthy hair and sparkling eyes. Give him black hair and brown eyes. He wasn't some sort of mythical creature."
" Perhaps you're right."
" Of course I am! Blue eyes... What a funny idea."