The Rise of The Fallen Empire

By Gowtham Gurunath

When a group of curious Archaeological students receive a text specified with co-ordinates, they immediately begin their own quest by following the trail, ultimately leading them into a trap; they stumble upon, what they think, is an age old buried scripture, but it doesn't stop there.
Now they must dig deep to unravel the mystery, which would shake the entire Archaeological community of Baltimore.
Their every single move are being watched. A mystery that's worth killing.
Some things are always meant to be buried in the past.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gowtham Gurunath
• Release date: Jun 18, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370373598

Gowtham Gurunath

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Contents List

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Acknowledgements

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Epilogue

Author’s Note

About The Author

Acknowledgements

The Rise of the Fallen

Empire

The Rise of The Fallen Empire is a work of fiction. The places and incidents

written in this novel is either the product of the author’s imagination

or are used fictitiously.

Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is

entirely coincidental.

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The technical details regarding the Archaeological procedures and practises & the inclusion of usage of various related equipment’s and artefacts

mentioned in the novel are all accurate and verified using various

sources from the Internet and data from the libraries.

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This work of fiction would not have been possible

without the continuous support of family and friends.

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Dedicated To My Family,

Dear Friends

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Beloved Readers

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The Rise of the Fallen Empire

Chapter One

The view of the sky was enormous as the shining sun slowly peered out of the horizon, from the ground below. The entire sky was scattered with the radiant colours of the rising fireball that perfectly blends into each other closely mimicking a prism.

Things were functioning exactly as it was supposed to be; right from never-ending sirens of automobiles on the near reflective tarmacs to the ear-piercing chattering noise of the people on streets; it just another fine day at Baltimore.

As for the John Hopkins University, or JHU, as they are popularly called, the place was infected with a mere silence, or at least the rule of maintaining Silence was strictly adhered across the campus.

Towards the south of the main campus building, was the block that was famously known by the students of JHU as ‘the dig site’, or ‘the excavation site’ because that’s where the department of Archaeology established their base, a few years back. Of the entire campus blocks of JHU, the excavation site or the dig site always had some special focus.

Many long years ago, probably in the mid – nineties, when the Archaeology department was initially proposed at JHU, there stroke an argument among the authorities in naming the block.

Some members suggested that it be named after ‘William Cunnington’, the father of Archaeology. But apparently in the early 80’s, ‘William Flinders Petrie’ was allegedly called as the father of Archaeology, by the Archaeological community, upon the discovery that led to the uncovering of The Great Pyramid.

This posed a huge disagreement among the various members of the Baltimore’s Archaeological community; finally after which they were able to find some common ground; both had William as their first name, so with each passing days, people eventually started calling the southern block, as the Williams Memorial.

Dusted inside the William Memorial, was a large glass casing enclosed by an ancient Brazilian ebony wood, which was stacked with a large number of priceless artefacts and pure medieval stuffs belonging to the Egyptians and Incans tribe that included the Staff of Horus, The Chalice of Fortune, Hieroglyphics Engraved Golden Coins, and even The Great Statue of