Relic Hunter

Quan Shu, Manchuria 1359 BC: The Chinese invent an explosive gift egg. New York, 2001: A rival beats Sydney and Nigel to a map leading to the Dragon's Egg.

Bali, 1459: A princess gets to look into Parvati's Bowl. Singapore, 2001: Sydeney runs into her ex and goes on a holiday with him; but when Derek Lloyd shows up to enlist her to find Parvati's Bowl, she can't resist

St. Beatrice's School for Girls, 1981: Sydney sees her teacher shot by a scar-faced man over an Egyptian pendant. 2001: Her roommate from school enlists Sydney's help to find the pendant and catch the killer.

Arabia AD 843: A sheikh uses the Light of Truth to reveal his general as a traitor. 2001: Prince Shareem drops out of Sydney's class to search for the Light of Truth.

Sydney's on the hunt for a pirate's booty…but will a traitor force her to walk the plank?

An sultan's wife dies under mysterious circumstances. Sydney believes she was searching for the Star of Nadir.

Czechoslovakia, 1720: A Satan-worshiper escapes from his hunters. Trinity College, 2001: Lucas Blackmer, a professor and novelist, asks Sydney to help find Vlad Tepes' lost relic.

Central America, AD 1488: the Aztecs hide a mysterious box. 2001: A guide leads Sydney and Nigel to an unusual, underground Aztec burial chamber where, instead of a body, they find a relic

New Guinea, 1522: A lancet bestows strength with its cut. 2001: Retrieving the lancet, Sydney and Nigel run into Nigel's look-alike just before his death.

Greece, 800 BC: King Minalysius gives a necklace to Princess Nabina, enslaving her to his will. 2001: Carson Inez, a collector, uses the necklace to get Sydney to help her to raise Athena.

New England Colonies, 1692: Witches consecrate an amulet before they are burned. 2002: Sydney's student's roommate finds the amulet.

Southeast Asia 1075: An idol of Ganesha is prayed to. 2002: Sydney finds the temple with the idol, but is trapped inside by local rebels.

Pacific Northwest, 1398: A native American sees lights descending from the sky. 2002: Sydney lectures about the natives, who faced a mysterious cataclysm 600 years ago.

An urn commissioned in a Cambodian monastery by the Chinese emperor for the remains of Confucius is about to be destroyed by systematic bombing of a whole province.

Sydney and Nigel travel to Istanbul to investigate the death of one Sydney's friends, a professor who was trying to prove Hercules did exist by finding the Belt of Hippolyte.

Sidney drags Nigel along to an Arctic base where an ancient mummy has been found.

Scotland Yard calls Sidney and Nigel to identify a Fifth Century murder weapon, which turns out to be the burial cross of King Arthur.

Professor Lamenza invites Sydney and Nigel to follow the trail of the Spanish crown hidden from Napoleon's army by Carlos IV.

Sidney inherits a key from the best relic hunter of the previous generation and hunts for the one treasure he never found—Pandora's box.

Bekkastan, 1401 AD: warrior princess Kahina proves her right to rule. 2002: Sydney and Nigel unearth a cave painting that might lead them to Kahina's Saddle.

While Nigel is in Spain, Sydney and Nigel's brother Preston go to England to search for a bottle of water from the Fountain of Youth.

An author on the Celts approaches Sydney and Nigel to follow up on a tip about a map to the astronomicons—the Druids' keys to Stonehenge, lost since the Romans conquered Britain.