Sky WindowDr Tim Fiddler, an archaeologist in the Near Eastern Department of the British Museum, is presented with a stone tablet by adventurer; Heather Turner who claims to have recovered it from the bombed-out ruins of an ancient Sumerian palace at Sippara, now in Iraq. Tim is suspicious but sends the tablet for date testing and it turns out not only to be genuine but of considerable antiquity. As he begins to translate the hieroglyphic inscription...