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The Masada Chronicles: The Blue Beads, Book one of the Chronicles: North America 1889AD: In 1889, a small, inscribed rock was excavated from a mound by John W. Emmert, a Smithsonian Institution field assistant and Confederate Civil War Veteran, during the course of the Bureau of American Ethnology Mound Survey. This rock appeared to have an inscription on it, and was found with a copper bracelet, a skull, and under that skull one blue bead. Modern analysis was also applied to the bracelets, and this lead to the discovery that they had the same proportions of lead and zinc as the brass made by the Romans between 45 BC and 200 AD. A search for the skull that had been found in the mound proved to be futile, it had disappeared from the warehouse, but there still remained an amazing clear blue bead which, upon close examination, was pronounced to be similar in composition to the rare beads found in the burial chambers of the ancient pharaohs.