“I’m sorry, I’m sorry—” He releases his grip. “Listen to me, this is vital. My father believed the evil can still be prevented from rising. I need your help—I need you to get me out of here before the equinox—”

Mick turns as Marvis thrusts his fist in front of his face, the pepper spray blinding him.

“No! No, no, no—”

Too flustered to speak, Dominique pushes the guard aside and runs from the room. She stops at the lounge, her pulse racing.

Marvis locks room 714, then ushers her out of the pod.

Mick continues pounding on the door, crying out to her like a wounded animal.

JOURNAL OF JULIUS GABRIEL

JOURNAL OF

JULIUS GABRIEL

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives, whomsoever they chose … The NEPHILIM were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them; the same were the MIGHTY men that were of OLD, the MEN of RENOWN.”

—GENESIS 6: 1—2, 4.

The Bible. The sacred book of the Jewish and Christian religions. For the archaeologist in search of truth, this document of antiquity can offer vital clues to help fill in the missing gaps in the evolution of man.

Genesis 6 may be the least understood passage in all the Bible, yet it may turn out to be its most revealing. Occurring just before God instructed Noah, it refers to the sons of God and the Nephilim, a name that literally translates into “the fallen ones,” or “they who fell from the sky with fire.”

Who were these “fallen ones,” these “men of renown”? An important clue may be found in the Genesis Apocryphon, one of the ancient texts uncovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls. In a key passage, Lamech, Noah’s father, questions his wife because he thinks his son’s conception was the result of her having had intercourse with either an Angel or one of their offspring, a Nephilim.

Did extraterrestrial blood flow through Noah’s body? The concept of “fallen” Angels, or “men of renown” interbreeding with human women may seem far-fetched, but there must be some element of truth to it, since the tale, like the story of Noah and the Great Flood, is repeated among different cultures and religions around the world.

As mentioned, I have spent a lifetime investigating mysterious wonders—magnificent structures left upon the face of this planet that have survived the ravages of time. I believe these structures were created by these “men of old, men of renown” for a single purpose—to save our species from annihilation.