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London in the time of Queen Elizabeth I is a bustling place, its streets crowded with vendors selling goods from all over the world. In the courtyard of St. Paul's Cathedral, Alice Wood competes with other booksellers, hawking pamphlets, plays, and the latest poetry from the continent. It is a lonely life for a hardworking young widow, and she will soon put it aside. When a black-clad stranger visits, speaking in riddles and asking questions about her long-vanished son, Alice will be drawn into an adventure straight out of one of her faerie stories.

Discloses staggering new evidence of ancient technologies used by Early Man and how they acquired it, presenting detailed cases including the history of the Antikythera Device and new data indicating that Archimedes was its inventor, the haunting mystery of the Salzburg cube, its purpose and the ongoing investigations of where it originated from; the enigmatic Sun Stone and how it was discovered by the Vikings; a 120 million year-old map of the Creator engraved into what is known as the Dashka Stone; and more.