Liber Perditorum: or, The Book of The Lost (Lost Books of Library of Alexandria) by S. H. Bilkan

Sacred text or ancient fantasy? Perhaps both. In 1968, a chest is unearthed beneath the ashes of Pompeii. Inside are seventy-six leather-bound volumes bearing the seal of the Library of Alexandria—books that should not exist, preserved against time, decay, and reason. Professor Matteo Dericci is summoned to translate one of them. What begins as an impossible archaeological discovery soon becomes something far stranger: a forbidden narrative set in ancient Alexandria, during the reign of King Soter and his son Philadelphus. A grand library is being built—one meant to gather all the knowledge of the world. But beneath the splendor of temples, palaces, priests, and kings, another story is waiting to be heard. A blind priest. A deaf priesthood. A king seeking “the truth and the truth only.” And a mysterious figure claiming to be Prometheus—witness of creation, prisoner of the gods, bringer of fire, and preacher of a truth humanity was never meant to hear. Read more