Isso foi explicado no roteiro original de John Spaiht, mas parece ter se perdido entre a página e a tela, provavelmente por causa das múltiplas reescritas.
[Their finds: columns of writing on stone tablets in Egypt, China, Cambodia, Peru. Patterns of lines, curves, and dots.]
Holloway: This is the writing of the Engineers. We’ve found it on every continent. And last year, we found our Rosetta Stone. The display shows the Engineer obelisk under the sea.
WATTS: The writing is a formula giving the location of a single star in our sky.