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'with four times their normal supply of provisions"

"

"He planned for an extended voyage," said Lily, suddenly intrigued

"Venator never intended to land every few days and resupply his fleet"

"All that that proves to me," said Sandecker, "is that Venator wanted to keep the entire voyage as secret as possible by never co a trail"

Pitt shook his head "As soon as the ships cleared the Straits of Gibraltar, any need for secrecy evaporated Venator was free and in the clear Byzantine warships sent to stop him would be as "

"So we put ourselves in Yaeger looked quizzically at Pitt

Venator's shoes or sandals or whatever they wore then What's our plan?"

"Dr Rothberg unknowingly caht Venator buried the artifacts where no one of his day would think to look"

Yaeger looked at him blankly "That could be anywhere in the ancient world"

"Or outside of the world as the Romans knew it"

"Charted geography didn't extend very far below North Africa or east of the Black Sea and Persian Gulf," said Lily "Nothing was explored beyond"

"We don't know that," Pitt disagreed "Junius Venator had access to four thousand years of e He knew of the existence of the African continent and the great steppes of Russia He must have known of trade with India, which in Turn ioods froes that sailed far beyond the usual Roman/Byzantine trade routes"

"We're certain the Alexandria Library had an entire section devoted to geographical records," said Lily "Venator could have worked from source maps compiled from much earlier times"

"What do you think he discovered that influenced him?" asked Sandecker