Day 63

The Library’s main structure has now been finished. I’ve already begun assembling bookshelves. With luck, I shall have the place fully stocked by the end to tomorrow and I can begin the translation of the Hyss Valley writings.

Day 62

Southern library wing completed.

Day 59

The central atrium of the Library has been completed. This will act as a gallery. The North and South wings that lead off it shall house my books while the West wing shall be my new study.

Day 53

Began a quarry just to the south of my sugarcane farm. There is a huge drift of sand that’ll be a perfect source of sandstone.

Day 50

Construction on the Library’s foundations has begun.

Day 49

Returned to the lighthouse.
Scouted out a location to build a sugar cane farm. Didn’t want to build it too close to where I plan on constructing the library. Industrial farming is so unsightly.

Day 48

The last of the passages have been cleared to the best of my abilities. Three are utterly impassable. The weakness in the roofing of the main chamber seems to have been a flaw in the architecture of the entire tomb. The one passage that has not collapsed lead to a long, shallow set of stairs that ascend to the surface at a point just beyond the edge of the desert. Over this entrance is a high pillar, perhaps a marker for this site so that those who wish to pay tribute to whomever is buried here might more easily find it.
I have found no clues that might help me in the translation of the writings I have found, and I have exhausted all avenues of investigation at this site (bar, of course, the sarcophagus, which I have no intention of trying to open at this time).
I am going to return to the Lighthouse and begin construction of a library on the nearby island. Once I bring in a few books on languages, I can attempt to translate the writings on my own.