In an Arizona desert, awords that make no sense Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates Halfway around the world, archaeologistsdiscovery at a medieval site Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretivetechnology Now this group is about to get a chance not to study the past but to enter it And with history opened up to the present, the dead awakened to the living, thesefor their very survival -- six hundred years ago