Journey to the Origins of Knowledge
Voices of the Past. Origins is a historical adventure about five modern schoolchildren who unexpectedly find themselves in Ancient Greece — in an age when people were beginning to ask questions that would change the course of history.
Five modern children suddenly enter the world of philosophers, astronomers, and geometers. To return home, they must collect the missing fragments of the Book of Forms — an ancient repository of knowledge scattered across cities and eras.
The Book itself is kept in secret in the Library of Alexandria, but it remains “asleep” until the missing pages are gathered and its meaning can be restored.
Along the way, the children meet some of antiquity’s greatest minds — Thales, Pythagoras, Euclid, Archytas, Eratosthenes, Heron, Hypatia, and others whose ideas survived for millennia.
Their path leads through Miletus, Croton, Athens, Alexandria, and Syracuse. The journey is far more dangerous than they expected. The Order of Shadow is hunting the fragments, convinced that knowledge itself is a threat, and the children must discover what truth can sometimes cost.
Voices of the Past. Origins is a novel about friendship, courage, and curiosity — about why questions can matter more than ready-made answers, and why voices from the past continue to speak in the present.
The book is also intended for adult readers who enjoy ancient cities and libraries, and clear explanations of ideas that changed the development of mathematics.
The historical events and scientific discoveries in the novel are based on real facts. Time travel is the story’s one fictional assumption, allowing scholars from different eras to meet within a single narrative.
