The assistant took, grumbling, the shovel which Hairibac handed him.
(Oh, excuse me, “Professor Hairibac”!)
So he took the shovel and started digging.
One hour later and one meter lower:
“Is it almost done, boss? I can't do any more of this!”
— “Just a little more, Jack! I'm sure you'll find it!”

 N.B: As the author, I'd better help this poor assistant, otherwise he will never get there! Let's see, what will we send him? A jack hammer? OK. But let's return to our story:

“Bo... Boss! Cool! A jack hammer has just fallen to me from above!”
— “You see, what did I tell you? It is fortunate that the author is helping you, for if not, incompetent as you are, we'd still be here tomorrow!”
And the work continued.
   At last, the long awaited moment arrived:
— “Wouaouaouchhhh!!!”
 — “What's going on, Jack?”
— “What's going on, boss, is that I stubbed my delicate foot against this blasted stone! It's a big one, besides!”
— “Cool, Jack! We found the entrance to the temple! And all that, thanks to my having the brain of an engineer!”
— “and thanks especially to my super-muscles, boss! "
Two or three shovelfuls later, they uncovered a stone wall, with no entrance.
— “Engineer's brain, hey! Boss, I believe that you were mistaken!
— “No problem, I will redo my calculations.”
 — “What do you mean to say, you, you... er, boss, that I have been digging for nothing?”
— “Yes, my dear Jack!”
— “I'm going to ki...”
— “One does not say such things, Jack! it is not in the script. And do not forget that I am your boss!”
— “You'll see what me I will do to you, the boss! You...”
Once more, he did not have time to finish his sentence: with a blow of his phenomenal fist, the professor sent him waltzing against the wall, which opened upon impact!
— “Hurray! I knew very well that I had not been mistaken! Let's go, stand up my dear loafer! It is not the moment to sleep.”
— “Oh the pretty birdies!” Jack said. “Let's go, let's enter the temple, boss.” And so they went in!”

 

They entered by the opening and arrived to a long corridor covered with hieroglyphics.
— “What does it say, boss?”
— “Wait a second. Er... ‘Wipe your feet before entering.’ Yes, that's it all right. And there: ‘No snoring after 8 P.M.’ And here: ‘Animals are not allowed into the temple.’”
   They continued to explore the temple, and arrived to a small empty room, with a door at the bottom.
— “Let's make an about-face, Jack! We won't find anything there!”
— “And why not?”
— “See these hieroglyphics, above the door; well, it says: ‘Toilets — Men.’”
So they set out again, and explored another part of the temple.
  " Not only we discovered a wonder of Antiquity, said the professor, but moreover, by exploring it, we will know some more about its history. We will be able to perhaps also find a tomb of a Pharaoh, with sarcophagi and mummies and stuff, and perhaps even a royal treasure!
— “  - Oh, yes! Oh yes, boss!” answered Jack.
They arrived in a large room filled with columns, with at the end the statues of the gods Anubis, Ra, Numeris and Itineris.
  " All these statues! you believe that they will stand the flash of my camera?
— “  - Aah! Here are some interesting inscriptions! said the professor pretending not to hear him. “Listen to that:

“this temple, called ‘Temple of Anubis’ initially, was the preferred place of the Pharaohs, in particular of Tutenkhamen. But one day, a Pharaoh was decapitated by bandits, and he was embalmed in this temple. The temple was then called ‘temple of the assassinated mummy.’ It was abandoned, because nobody wanted to penetrate any more inside: the word goes around that the headless mummy walks in its temple and kills the intruders who enter there...
— “Duh! charming! and... that does not scare you, all that, boss?
— “Bah! Poppycock, all that!”

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