Alexandria (ONC entry)
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When Maxence Mills digs up a skeleton and a marble statue in a small village in Egypt, she knows she just made the discovery of a lifetime. What she finds inside the statue is even more exhilarating: an age-old testimonial, recounting how the great Library of Alexandria met its end.
Preparations to get her finds to Washington and the big analytics lab are made, and soon Maxence finds herself in the airport of Cairo, nerves and excitement buzzing through her body.
But someone else's eyes are also set on the same prize.
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