The AEGIS Series · Book 7 of 9
The Ashes of Babylon
An Archaeological Thriller
As the Persian army broke through the walls of Babylon and fire consumed the greatest library the ancient world had built, a scribe collected the ash of burning knowledge into a sealed clay vessel and inscribed it with a prayer that was never meant to be answered.
Twenty-five centuries later, a scholar is delivering the most prestigious lecture of her career when the cuneiform script she has spent her life reading goes silent. Not gradually. All at once. She can see the marks. She can count them. She cannot read them.
Within forty-eight hours, twelve scholars of ancient languages across four countries report the same experience. The pattern is too precise to be neurological and the targets too specific to be coincidence. Seven clay tablets from the ruins of Babylon have been sealed in an Alpine vault since 1899, and someone has been assembling them with a patience that suggests this is not the operation. It is the calibration.
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