Decalogue Deception

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The story she heard was impossible. Not far-fetched. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Impossible.</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Phoenician sailors crossing the Atlantic? Smuggling treasure into the Americas? And not just any treasure - the lost artifacts of the Temple of Jerusalem missing since 70 A.D.? No. That doesn't happen.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dr. Vivian Guthrie knows that. She's the director of the Museum of American History. This story told by a new museum donor is pure fantasy.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But the story itself isn't what makes her investigate; it's her mysterious new benefactor who seems to know too much about her...</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>...and her carefully held secret that enabled her rise to the director's chair. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She doesn't yet know her role in her benefactor's nefarious scheme or that he's responsible for the disappearance of the CDC's lead virus researcher. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>All Vivian knows is this: she's looking at a large tablet in the New Mexico Desert inscribed with a Middle Eastern language that's been dead for 2000 years. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>If it's real it doesn't matter how impossible the story sounds.</span></p><p></p>