‘Uh-huh,’ said Banks distractedly. ‘Okay! Let’s go for another round,’ he told the monk. Yonten nodded amiably and took a biscuit out of his robe. She found Jackson seated behind one of the workstations in the lab. Reznak was leaning against the back of the Harvard professor’s chair. Oblivious to her presence, the two men talked excitedly as they stared at the crisp, enhanced images on the large monitor before them. The Emerald Tablet and Anna Godard’s sun cross pendant stood propped under a pair of sleek, high-resolution, digital magnifiers on the table in the middle of the room. ‘See the markings here and here?’ Jackson was saying as he pointed to two lines of small, wedge-shaped characters in the middle of the tablet. ‘Although the rest of the text appears to be Assyrian, these are undoubtedly Akkadian scripts, which would put the origin of the stone to at least the third millennium BC. The carbon fourteen data from the mass spectrometer also gives that period as the approximate era for its source.’ Alexa cleared her throat.
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