1927. The famous British archaeologist William Petrie discovered a stele with mysterious writing in Egypt. Not knowing how to interpret them, he is forced to hide his discovery. Meanwhile, competitors are not asleep. Every day, Sir Petrie becomes more and more convinced that he is being spied on by someone who wants to find out the location of the stele and appropriate the discovery. The situation becomes even more complicated when Petrie's great-niece, little Lucy Golding, becomes involved in the case. In this novel, the famous author of historical prose Yulia Andreeva puts forward her own version of events that still concern the scientific community. No one knows why William Petrie, having begun the next stage of excavations in Egypt, suddenly abandoned everything in 1927 to begin archaeological research in a completely different place - in Palestine. Sign of information products 12+