This book starts in Rome in 2000, it is about a piece of papyrus that has been found in the Vatican vaults, by a night janitor, this leads three men on an epic journey of adventure and intriegue that will eventually lead them to the "Great Gateway" and home again, yet not before they have to look death, squarly in the face. the adventure takes them to the unknown and beyond, to the far corners of the Earth, and the perils of man and his insatiable desire to own for himself that which he was never meant to have, this book will be seen as purely fiction, a figment of the authors imagination! however, I challenge, those of you with inqusitive minds to read this book and make your own mind up as to whether it is purely fantasy or whether there may just be a glimer of truth mingled in, that is for the reader to decide.