Jack Wellington, a UN agent assigned to help retrieve antiquities looted from the Baghdad Museum, discovers a buried ossuary. Knowledge of the existence of the box sets in motion a chain of events. The ancient tablets contained in the box detail the existence of a woman named Maya, cast out of the Exodus after confronting Moses. People connected with information on the box begin dieing. Jack finds that groups from Israel, the Vatican, and Mecca are out to destroy or hide all existence of the woman. There is a subsequent chase across three continents ending in a confrontation in Istanbul.