Tomb of Gods by Brian Moreland EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Brian Moreland
- ISBN: 978-1787584129
- Language: English
- Genre: Historical Fantasy, Supernatural Thrillers, Historical Thrillers
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- Page: 288
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The Expedition
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Egypt, 1935
The caves moaned like a chorus of lost souls, beckoning
the team of British archaeologists as they scaled the
mountain. When the eight men reached a cliff plateau lined
with craggy fissures, Dr. Harlan Riley examined the entrance
to the central-most cave and smiled. After unrolling a photo of
a papyrus scroll, he compared the hieroglyphs with the
symbols etched in the rock. Harlan found the crescent
marking, then an image of Horus holding an ankh. The falconheaded god was barely visible after centuries of winds had eroded the stone.
“We can thank the ancient Greeks and Romans for leaving us
accounts of their expeditions,” Harlan told his team. “This is
the entrance they used.”
Throughout the centuries, countless explorers had searched
in vain to find the tomb of Nebenteru, where King Ramses II
supposedly sealed his royal secrets. The Greeks and Romans
had scribed tales of a series of caves known as Kahf Alssulta.
Men of every devotion – soldiers and monks, scientists and
thieves – had entered the caves, never to return from the
endless honeycombed labyrinth. Knowledge of the mountain
and its entombed mysteries eventually faded into myths buried
in libraries and ghost stories told around nomadic campfires.
Modern archaeology had turned its interests to more popular
curiosities, like Tut’s tomb in Thebes and all the enigmas
surrounding the pyramids of Giza.
For Dr. Harlan Riley, the secrets within Nebenteru’s tomb
had become his Holy Grail. Whether the Greco-Roman tales
were fact or fiction, he didn’t fully know. But the piece of
Ani’s papyrus scroll he had pilfered from a tomb in the Valley
of the Kings was authentic. It had been written as if intended
only for the eyes of a pharaoh. Coded within the text was a
subtext that alluded to a hidden gateway. Somewhere in
cavernous darkness, revelations lay waiting to be discovered.
When he’d compared the scroll to the fourth-century writings
of a Roman explorer searching for this cave, Harlan
pinpointed the tomb’s location east of the Nile. Two decades
of searching Egypt’s desert mountains had brought him to this
moment. As his heart swelled and his eyes glistened with
moisture, he thought of his granddaughter, Imogen, back home
in London. He wished she could be here to share this victory.
Just three men of Harlan’s group knew the full extent of what
the scroll suggested they would find. Chalmers looked ashen
as he peered into the cave’s black maw. Benson thought only
of the wealth and fame that would be theirs once they returned
to England. Harlan had made a pact with his colleagues to
maintain secrecy until they discovered the truth for
themselves. The assistants and porters knew only what was
needed to do their jobs.
Harlan switched on the lamp of his caving helmet and aimed
the beam into the cave. Something deep within was calling
him to enter.
“We are standing at the threshold of one of life’s great
mysteries,” Harlan told his team. He entered the tunnel first.
The others followed as the cave swallowed the Riley team
whole.
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