This novel raises a number of subtle questions. For instance, why cities like Rome, Constantinople, Baghdad, Damascus, Jerusalem, or Alexandria attract conquerors like flies? Is the ancient glory they transpire the only reason, or is there something much more sinister like non encoded DNA? Where the human madness searching for secret knowledge will ever end? Will the glorious departed be ever safe from modern archaeologists and genetic analysis? Will wisdom ever prevail on raw violence in Middle East? Is bull sacrificing the only way to reach peace and quiet in the Mediterranean basin? What were the effects of the acts of enchanting but unscrupulous women of "low" morality on human history? Is evil lust stronger than divine purity?
For such an impressive array of questions the reader is free to provide his/her own answers according to his/her religious and cultural beliefs and the author is clear in that respect.
This novel raises a number of subtle questions. For instance, why cities like Rome, Constantinople, Baghdad, Damascus, Jerusalem, or Alexandria attract conquerors like flies? Is the ancient glory they transpire the only reason, or is there something much more sinister like non encoded DNA? Where the human madness searching for secret knowledge will ever end? Will the glorious departed be ever safe from modern archaeologists and genetic analysis? Will wisdom ever prevail on raw violence in Middle East? Is bull sacrificing the only way to reach peace and quiet in the Mediterranean basin? What were the effects of the acts of enchanting but unscrupulous women of "low" morality on human history? Is evil lust stronger than divine purity?
For such an impressive array of questions the reader is free to provide his/her own answers according to his/her religious and cultural beliefs and the author is clear in that respect.