The Six Sacred Stones by Matthew Reilly

Author:Matthew Reilly [Reilly, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Tags: Suspense, General, Fiction, Action & Adventure, Christian
ISBN: 9781416505075
Google: C37dFw6W-2oC
Amazon: 1416505075
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2006-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

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“Now that’s a sight you’ll remember for a long time,” he breathed.

THE HALL OF THE MACHINE

The twenty-foot-high archway in which Jack stood looked microscopic compared to the space that opened up below it.

The archway stood at the summit of an immense mountain of stone steps—five hundred of them, maybe more—steps

that descended to a flat-floored hall that was easily four hundred feet tall and five hundred wide. The colossal collection of stairs stretched for the entire width of the hall, from wall to wall, an enormous mountainside of perfectly square-cut steps.

The ceiling of this mighty subterranean hall was upheld by a forest of glorious columns, all of which were carved in the colorful Egyptian fashion, with brilliant red-blue-and-green lotus leaves at their tops. There must have been forty such pillars, all in regular rows.

“Just like the temple of Rameses II at Karnak…” Wizard breathed.

“Maybe the temple of Rameses was a replica built in honor of this,” Zoe said.

Standing at the top of the great flight of stairs, Jack felt like he was standing in the topmost row of a modern football stadium, gazing down upon the field far below.

And there was one other thing.

Down in the hall,there was no fourth wall opposite the stair-mountain.

Indeed directly opposite the huge staircase, past the forest of ornate columns, was nothing at all: the polished floor of the hall simply ended abruptly at a sharp edge, a railless balcony five hundred feet wide, essentially a great viewing platform that looked out over an even larger space of more darkness.

But from their vantage point at the top of the staircase, Jack and the others couldn’t see what lay inside this larger space, so they descended the stairs, looking like ants against the gargantuan hall.

They were halfway down the stairs when Jack saw what lay in the larger space.

He stopped dead.

“We’re gonna need more flares,” he breathed.

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THE VERTEX AT ABU SIMBEL

THE FIRST VERTEX OF THE MACHINE

JACK, WIZARD, AND ZOEcrossed the vast floor of the Hall, passing through the forest of superhigh columns, before they came to the edge of the hall, the point where it looked out over a larger underground void.

A gargantuan abyss dropped away before them. Deep and black and at least a thousand feet wide, it plummeted to unfathomable depths, into the densest darkness Jack had ever seen.

And mounted over it, suspended from the flat stone ceiling above the abyss, was a colossal pyramid—hanging inverted, upside down—perfectly cut and, by the look of it, of exactly the same dimensions as the Great Pyramid at Giza. It looked beyond ancient, beyond anything mankind could hope to build. Its flanks blazed with a lustrous bronze sheen.

Jack was reminded of the Pyramid Inversé at the Louvre in Paris—the beautiful upside-down glass pyramid that hung over a smaller one. Made famous in the blockbuster novelThe Da Vinci Code, its construction was shrouded in both Masonic and neo-pagan myth.

He also thought of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, built as they were into a

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