Atlantis legacy

Gibbins, David2024

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Egypt, 1334 BC In a horrifying ritual never before performed, a pharaoh is mummified alive for rejecting the old gods and thinking that he holds the key to immortality. Unknown to his tormentors, he had hidden away a secret brought thousands of years before by the survivors of a lost civilisation …England, AD 1667 A richly laden merchantman is wrecked on the coast of Cornwall in one of the worst storms in memory. On board is a treasure map like no other, found in Rome and rescued from the ship by the captain - only for it to be lost again in one of the most forbidding places on earth.Present-day Marine archaeologist Jack Howard and his friend Costas are on the trail of an extraordinary mystery - one that takes them from a pyramid in Egypt to a terrifying dive in a submerged mine and a remote island in the Atlantic, on the hunt for ancient knowledge that could benefit all of humanity.