The Moses Riddle (Thomas McAllister 'Treasure Hunter' Adventure Book 1) by Hunt Kingsbury Page A

Thomas was stymied. Moses was taking the treasure west, which could literally mean anywhere. Thomas prayed that the words Dr. Sinistar came back with were definite places and not words that were riddles in themselves. He would have to wait.
The next part of the riddle involved the constellations. It will be at an accouterment worn by that great hunter in the sky, the same as the great complex at Giza. Thomas smiled. Anyone who knew constellations and the secret behind the Great Pyramid complex at Giza would be able to interpret this line. Thomas had studied both.
There was only one great hunter in the sky. Orion. The constellation of Orion. Before he continued, Thomas checked the English definition of accouterment , to make sure he was correctly interpreting the ancient Hebrew symbol. He was. It meant jewelry, or a garment, worn in addition to one’s regular clothing. The accouterment in the constellation of Orion was famous. Orion’s belt.
Thomas had once studied Orion, in an advanced class on ancient Egypt, in college. The Orion constellation was very significant to the ancient Egyptians. Years earlier, a construction engineer, Robert Bauval, had noticed that the three pyramids at Giza, including the great pyramid, were aligned in a fashion that looked similar to the way that the three stars of Orion’s belt were aligned. Thomas and a few of his classmates had been given the task of checking the relative position of the three stars and comparing it mathematically to Giza, to see if the relationship matched. By working with the Director of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, they found that Orion’s belt stars did have an uncanny alignment to the layout of the pyramids and that the Egyptians had been more astronomically advanced than anyone had ever imagined. In addition it was proven that Orion had been a major factor in their belief system.
It was a fluke that Thomas knew this. He might have eventually figured it out, but thanks to professor D. H. Smith back at Harvard, he knew it already. He was getting closer. The treasure would be hidden somewhere in the West and in or around a pyramid formation that matched Giza. Therein lay the problem. There was a hell of a lot of land west of Saqqara.
Finally, Thomas came to the last sentence in the third paragraph. You will find it, in the middle of the middle, marked by a circle in a square . This clue sounded like specific instructions on where the treasure was located within the site. He wouldn’t need to solve this part until he had located the specific pyramid structure.
Thomas placed his pen on the table and finished his beer. The first round was complete and he felt pretty good. He still had no idea as to what the treasure was. As for w here , he knew that the treasure was west of Saqqara and that it was hidden somewhere in or near a pyramid formation like those at Giza. Now, he needed help.
Thomas jumped to his feet and paced the room. He had made a serious mistake. He should not have been so quick to seek assistance. He had been too eager. It would’ve been far better to keep the project selfcontained, to have taken the time to go to the University of Cairo tomorrow to complete the translation himself. Or, since there were a limited number of people in the world who were expert at deciphering ancient Hebrew, he could’ve asked each of them for one word apiece. He didn’t even know Sinistar. Stop it, McAlister! Stop second-guessing yourself. Martha recommended Sinistar.
What about Martha? Should he have involved her? From the outset, he had known he’d need the help of others. Martha had been the perfect choice. But how long had she been working at Senneferi? Cataloguing was tedious, boring work. Years, decades, spent with a horsehair paint brush in one hand and a pencil in the other, delicately moving sand around, intricately reconstructing history. Could she have hit the proverbial wall?
She knew everything, except the translation of the message. At anytime, she