X-Men
Shifting Sands
Prologue
Egypt 1935
Like any other day it was hot, with the sands whipping up and warning of an impending storm front.
Dr. Nathaniel Essex turned his head briefly to the horizon, squinting beneath the wide-brimmed hat he wore and nodded to his chaperone; who then led him into the megalithic sandstone temple before them.
From the outside, most of the structure had laid hidden beneath the sand dunes and only, seemingly accidentally, discovered in recent days.
Dr. Essex was the first man to catch a glimpse of its interior, in nearly five thousand years and he took the moment in with a feeling of pride. After all, he led the archeological team, made up of peasant workers and watched feverishly as they found the entrance and broke it down.
With a long exhale the doctor took a step inside after his guide and traced his lantern along the walls. Unlike the great tombs, these walls were filled with the ancient ideograms and hieroglyphics and depicted a paradise that had been taken away.
In the eerie silence the two men continued along and suddenly Essex paused, staring at an image before him, carved into the wall. "Here you are at last," he said, his voice thick with an English accent. "It has been so long."
The image was of a god, his left hand blocking the sun and his right, clutching the scepter of the pharaoh. Beneath the carving and inscribed in the hand of the ancients, was …
En Sabah Nur
The Apocalypse of Mankind
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