Peter stood bolt upright, and everyone else jumped from their seats automatically as well, hanging on his every word. “So our Ring of Gyges was created half a billion years ago, when our ancestors were ground-dwelling rodents, and somehow found its way to Earth where it was discovered much later by modern humans who proceeded to continue telling spoken tales about its strange qualities until someone decided to actually write it all down.”

“How does that even come close to explaining the Egyptian written on it?” Barry said.

“People didn’t really invent writing until about 3300 B.C., and those were symbolical forms at first,” Ina said. “The Sumerians and their cuneiform. Then Egyptian hieroglyphs, Chinese characters, Greek scripts. On and on, diverging along with all of the cult...

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