The time is in the last decade of the twentieth century. Bill McGee, who Is an amateur Archaeologist, makes a discovery which requires him to learn the basics of several ancient languages before allowing him to step through a time warp and back into the first millennium BC. There he finds and follows two characters who dictate to him a series of fantastic stories and teach him much about the origin of some of todays modern names, including his own, McGee. These wild and fantastic tales began as follows: It is sometime in the eighth century B. C