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Sandecker stared at the ceiling "Since the Celts weren't a seafaring people and are not known to have sailed across the Atlantic to the neorld, itship"

"No ships sailed over Navidad Bank unless they wanted to have their hulls ripped apart by shallow coral and file a phony insurance claim," said Pitt "The only other possibility is that the ship was driven onto the bank by a storm"

Gunn gazed down at the carpet as if so to insurance records, an old steamer called Vandalia smashed onto the reef"

"I surveyed her re at her brother expectantly

Dirk nodded at her and grinned "The amphor was not all we found"

"What Dirk is hinting is that we also discovered a labyrinth of caverns or rooms carved from rock that is now covered with the coral" She reached into her purse and retrieved the digital cae cauldron sculpted with ies of ancient warriors It was filled with small, everyday artifacts"

Sandecker looked at her in disbelief "A city beneath the sea in the Western He the Olmecs, Mayans and Incas? It doesn't seem possible"

"We won't have answers until a thorough exploration is conducted" Summer held the camera as if it was a piece of expensive jewelry "The structure we observed looked like some sort of temple"

Sandecker turned to Gunn "Rudi?"

Gunn nodded in understanding, took the camera from Summer's hand and pushed a switch on the wall that raised a panel, revealing a large digital television He then connected the cable into the TV, picked up the rees recorded by Dirk and Summer of the sunken temple

There werewith the entry arch and the steps leading to the interior hat looked like a large stone bed The cauldron and its contents were in another chamber

Dirk and Summer narrated as Gunn e flashed on the monitor, they all sat silently for a few moments

Finally, Pitt spoke first "I think we should get St Julien Perlmutter in on this"

Gunn looked skeptical "St Julien isn't an archaeologist"

"True, but if anyone has theories on early seafarers and navigators sailing to this side of the ocean three thousand years ago, he would"