Stargate SG-1: Trial By Fire: SG1-1 - Plot & Excerpts
Bauer @page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; } Blow stretched the deep blue blanket of the southern Mediterranean and jutting out into the water lay a parched belly of land that held the remains of Kerkouane, an ancient fortress town. To the naked eye it looked like a bomb site. Stumps of columns and leftovers of walls formed an unruly maze. The Romans had dropped by for a visit, about the same time they'd levelled Carthage and rebuilt it to suit their own taste. No rebuilding had ever happened in Kerkouane, which meant that this jumble of ruins was the only major site of genuinely Phoenician origin in all of Tunisia. Most of the excavation had taken place in the 1950s, but some digs were still active, including a recent one, backed by the University of Oxford. Its tents were pitched beyond the far end, a little inland and set back from the main complex.Outside the largest of these tents stood a sturdy, apple-cheeked, elderly woman. Everyone's favourite granny. The looks distracted from forty-odd years of academic achievement, and from the lofty heights of that experience and its concomitant accolades she glared down at a mousy girl, young enough to be her granddaughter."Tophet?
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