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From the author of the bestselling Atlantis comes a thrilling novel of buried secrets, age-old mysteries, and a conspiracy surrounding the fabled Ark of the Covenant. What do you get if you cross Indiana Jones with Dan Brown? Answer: David Gibbins' Mirror 664 BC. An adventurer named Hanno returns, near death, to his home city of Carthage on the Mediterranean with an incredible story to tell. With him, he brings the flayed skin of a terrifying creature he calls a gorilla, and on it, he has written an account of his adventure. The skin is nailed to a pillar in Carthage for all to read, but Hanno's greatest secret he tells only his brother Hamilcar. When Hamilcar disappears during a doomed voyage to the Tin Islands, and Hanno dies having resolved to tell nobody else, the secret is apparently lost for all time. Present day: Jack Howard and his international team are excavating one of the great.