This anomalous structure, with the emperor sidelined by a generalissimo, had arisen through the ascendancy of the half-Vandal military strongman Stilicho (395-408), who was appointed by Theodosius I as guardian of his infant son and successor Honorius.

Over the next few seasons, the team expanded their digs, recovering other anomalous structures from the earthen mounds, such as the Temple of the Jaguar and the Temple of the Warriors.

He said, very slowly, "So we have the results I requested, and they prompt but do not answer the key question: Why would anyone place such anomalous structures inside the body of Sebastian Birch--a place where those structures are unable to exercise the only effect of which they seem capable?"

On the X-ray floor, many of the experiments conducted use techniques such as XRD, XAFS, DAFS (X-ray diffraction anomalous fine structure), WAXS, and SAXS.

That an anomalous structure underlaid the area was known from unusual water well drill cuttings in 1912 of deformed rock, "crystalline clast breccia with a melt matrix" as a later report described it.

As a 3D rendition, CBCT offers an undistorted view of the dentition that can be used to accurately visualize both erupted and non-erupted teeth, tooth root orientation and anomalous structures that conventional 2D radiography cannot.

"At minus two hundred degrees Celsius, some of the larger particles are showing relative movement, but whether this is driven by anomalous internal structure, or reacting to the warmer temperature, I cannot as yet ascertain."