02500cam a2200301 4500 545486142 TxAuBib 20211104120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781908323194 1908323191 cb1865ff-7538-4716-9e0a-0aba4e1258b2 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1003792 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Mitchell, Alex. The 13th Tablet [Libby]. Haus Publishing, 2012. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 742kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Thriller. HTML:<p>Iraq, 2004. The war on terror rages on and as lawlessness escalates in Iraq, looters are hitting the museums. Mina Osman, a spirited young American archaeologist of Iraqi descent appalled at the loss of her parents' heritage, heads to the University of Mosul to help source Iraq's antiquities.</p> <p>While reprimanding one of her students for conspiring with the looters, a cuneiform tablet dating back three thousand years is handed over for restitution. The tablet holds within it a profound secret about the primordial flood described in the Gilgamesh epic.</p> <p>What begins as a straightforward translation of an ancient text triggers a series of disruptive and life-threatening events. A chase without limits ensues which takes the savvy and adventurous Mina and Jack, a handsome ex-US Army Major, from Mosul to Safed and from Cambridge to Phuket, in the midst of the tsunami cataclysm.</p> <p>Alex Mitchell is an honorary researcher at the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford University. Alex is working on two sequels to <i>The Thirteenth Tablet</i> which will take Mina Osman to China, India, and Greece, with a climax in North America.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-01-03 20:00:02. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1486-1/CB1/865/FF/13thTablet9781908323194.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=CB1865FF-7538-4716-9E0A-0ABA4E1258B2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1486-1/CB1/865/FF/13thTablet9781908323194.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=CB1865FF-7538-4716-9E0A-0ABA4E1258B2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)