Information like this isn't just for an eccentric genius.

[She ponders his points, ponders the entire mess. Dark eyes search for the answer, nothing that seems to make sense, when...]

More like a Da Vinci than an Einstein. Maybe we've been reading this wrong. Da Vinci wrote in code and backwards. We might be decoding a bedtime journal, but even then, it's more information than nothing. Most historians would kill for daily accounts and records. Even if we don't know the technicalities of the Ingress, we'd know how it was used, what it meant, literally anything that could hint as to its previous uses or movements.