Chapter 32Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
—Pope John XXIII
5:00 a.m. GMT+3, May 22, 2022
Mountain ridge, forty kilometers northwest of the former Göbekli Tepe
Jean-Paul, the archeologist, a man with a love of historical religious sites, watches as Göbekli Tepe smolders on the horizon. One of the few monuments to have withstood twelve thousand years of mankind’s checkered history intact, destroyed in a matter of minutes. He prays for forgiveness from the Lord for his transgressions. His pride led him to help Alexander find the object here. His pride led whoever it was to obliterate the ol
