THE HUNT BEGINS! In the damp rainforests of Central America, archaeologists discover an immaculately preserved Maya stela. Along with familiar hieroglyphs, the artefact is inscribed with completely unknown characters. Donavon MacAllon, an expert in ancient scripts and calendar systems at the University of Edinburgh, is invited to the excavation site to assist in deciphering the symbols. When Donavon and his colleagues stumble upon remains of a gigantic Maya metropolis in the vicinity of the stela, the project soon attracts unwelcome attention. The team succeed in opening a sealed chamber which contains a technologically advanced archive, but the more they find out about the lost city of CORUUM, the more questions they have. Donavon senses that the unearthing of a late classical Maya relic is only the beginning of something much bigger. The swift arrival of the American CIA, backed up by an elite task force of US Marines, confirms his suspicions. Digging deeper into the fortified subterranean complex, signs emerge that its original creators might be about to return … Donavon and his team are caught in the crossfire of a bitter conflict over influence and information. Hostilities dating back millennia are about to play out right here on Earth.weiterlesen