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The Secret Artifact
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4 minutes and 54 seconds
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UK
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English
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Eli Hunt
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Eli Hunt
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ehunt on Feb 27, 2008
This is the most difficult story I’ve ever had to tell. I’ve waited 30 years to tell it.
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- This is the most difficult story I've ever had to tell.
- I've waited 30 years to tell it.
- And I hope, when it's over, you'll understand why I've kept it secret until now.
- [onscreen] The Story of The Secret Artifact With Historian Eli Hunt
- I'm Eli Hunt and this is my own story.
- The story of the secret artifact.
- You already know how this story starts.
- When I was 10 years old,
- my parents took me to the ruins at ancient Olympia.
- Most of the tourists were paying attention to the best preserved parts -
- the Temple of Zeus, the palaestra colonnade, the entrance to the stadium.
- I was more interested in the piles of rubble,
- the places no one was looking.
- My parents didn't even notice I had left their side.
- It was 2 hours before they found me digging through the dirt
- a few meters behind Pheidias’ Workshop,
- the site where supposedly one of the seven great wonders of the ancient world had been made -
- the great gold and ivory statue of Zeus.
- They were quite mad at me for running off,
- until I showed them what I’d found -
- a small bronze statue of a snake goddess.
- And as you know from my biography,
- I turned that statue in to the museum,
- although of course I really wanted to take it home with me.
- Later, their researchers authenticated it as a lost work of Pheidias.
- They were thrilled, my parents were as proud as could be,
- and the media dubbed me a young hero of history.
- I’ve been an avid fan and researcher of the ancient Olympic games ever since.
- As fantastic as it sounds, all of that really is true.
- But it’s not the whole truth.
- Yes, I discovered an ancient bronze artifact,
- and yes I gave it to the museum.
- But I found something else that day.
- And I didn’t tell a soul.
- I kept it, and I’ve studied it, for decades.
- I still don’t know if I completely understand it.
- That’s why I’m sharing it with you now.
- Time is running out.
- You may understand what I have failed to.
- Here is the truth.
- The sculpture was hollow,
- and when I ran my finger along the inside, I felt something rough -
- a piece of old, weathered paper.
- A tiny scroll, written on both sides, in English -
- not ancient Greek.
- I had no idea what it was. Was it some kind of riddle or poem or prayer?
- I couldn’t tell. But somehow, the fact that it was written in English -
- that made it okay to keep the scroll.
- It wasn’t ancient. It didn’t belong to the museum.
- It belonged to me.
- I've long since memorized the words I first puzzled over that day in ancient Olympia.
- The cryptic directions begin with “When the time comes, there will be no more time…
- When travelers appear, they will be washed clean by Lethe…
- As you wait for the six, you can build a House of Salomon...”
- And so on.
- At the end, a simple line, “Instructions for preparing the Lost Ring.”
- You can read all of it for yourself. But what I want you to know is this:
- I have been building that house for decades.
- Now, it's time to share what I have built with you.
- I realize at this point, you may not trust me completely.
- Surely, some of you will feel as though I have been cheating you
- by withholding what little I do know about the lost ring.
- So let me share one more story with you.
- Do you know how the agonothetai and the hellanodikai punished athletes who were caught cheating at the ancient Olympics?
- They created a giant statue of the cheater
- and put it on a pedestal right in the center of Olympia.
- It was the ultimate public shaming.
- Now if this were 160 BC, maybe you would want to make a statue of me,
- for cheating you of the knowledge I’ve had.
- I wouldn’t blame you.
- But the Greeks had another tradition –
- extending the olive branch when it was time to make peace.
- That time is now.
- I know that I can trust Ariadne, and that I can trust you.
- No more secrets. I’ve opened the portal to you.
- From now on, what I see, you see.
- We are in this together.
- [onscreen] www.TheLostGames.com


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