Archaeologist Nicole Berman is the first woman to be granted a permit to lead a dig in Saudi Arabia. She leaves America not long after her mother died. Or was it a natural death?
The team assembled has two new members after sudden last-minute withdrawals. One she knows well. She hopes the dig will prove that a Biblical figure lived in this location. If proven, it would seriously affect several major religions.
A parallel story is one of the young Abram (he would become Abraham) and begins in the ancient city of Ur. His ancestors, still living, were on Noah’s Ark.