A Short Story by J.F. Penn
De-Extinction of the Nephilim
Unearth the past. Awaken the future.
At Gobekli Tepe, the oldest sacred site on Earth, archaeologist Emilia Kaya breaks into a sealed chamber and finds a sarcophagus holding a ten-foot winged skeleton.
An earthquake buries the discovery minutes later, and all she saves is a single finger bone.
When the bone reaches a de-extinction lab with the wrong investors, an old woman's warning begins to come true: wake the giants, and the flood must come again.
Some things were buried for a reason.
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The research behind the book
Gobekli Tepe, Turkey
The world's oldest known monumental site, raised over 11,000 years ago, six thousand years before Stonehenge. No one knows who built it or why. The tomb in the story is invention. Probably.
The Book of Enoch and the Nephilim
An apocryphal text left out of most Bibles, in which fallen angels father giants on human women, and the great Flood is sent to wipe them away.
De-extinction and Colossal Biosciences
A real company is working to bring back the woolly mammoth and the thylacine. The lab processes in the story follow the actual science.
The CIA's stake in de-extinction
Through its In-Q-Tel investment arm, the CIA really has invested in de-extinction technology. That single fact sparked this story.
The Flood before the Bible
A world-drowning deluge appears in cultures far beyond Genesis, from Gilgamesh onward. In the story, the carvings at Gobekli Tepe remember the water.
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