artifact with powers to bridge the realms of life and death, puzzle box with a sphere in the middle of it, cryptic symbols, dangerous and mysterious, supernatural, tool for astral projection, black, looks like it's man made but maybe also otherworldly, warm glow coming from within, scary looking, ominous, sitting in a dark government room being studied, shallow depth of field, photographic, realistic, cinematic --ar 2:3 --v 6.0