Cambridge archaeologist Sarah Weston makes an unusual
discovery in the ancient Ethiopian mountain kingdom of
Aksum—a sealed tomb with inscriptions in an obscure dialect.
Along with her colleague, American anthropologist Daniel
Madigan, she tries to identify the entombed man and
translate the inscriptions.
Tracking down clues in Addis
Ababa and the monasteries of Lalibela, Sarah and Daniel
uncover a codex in the subterranean library revealing the
secret of the tomb—a set of prophecies about Earth’s final
hours, written by a man hailed by Ethiopian mystics as
Coptic Christianity’s 10th saint. Faced with violent
opposition and left for dead in the heart of the Simien
Mountains, Sarah and Daniel survive to journey to Paris,
where they’re given a 14th-century letter describing the
catastrophic events that will lead to the planet’s demise.
Connecting the two discoveries, Sarah faces a deadly
conspiracy to keep the secret buried in order to promote
technological advances presently leading toward the
prophesied end of the Earth.
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