In the eyes of the faithful, the Pope was a messenger who received God's will. If his body were controlled by the devil, nothing could be worse.
In a room temporarily prepared within the Apostolic Palace, Joseph prepared the altar like an altar boy.
As he worked, his thoughts wandered. Before today, he had never considered that God and the devil might actually be one and the same.
Though he was an exorcist, he rarely visited the Vatican Secret Archives. The archives had not been so strict in the past, but since 1953, not even a single page could be taken out, whether it was an original document or a handwritten copy.
At that time, a document known as the Dulli Papyrus had circulated among archaeologists. It recorded Thutmose III witnessing a UFO 3,500 years ago.
The papyrus had circulated because Alberto Dulli, the director of the Vatican Museum, had secretly copied it and smuggled it out.
Dulli was naturally dismissed, and the archives became more strictly managed. Every borrower could only submit an application at the front desk; they could not borrow documents freely as they would at an ordinary library. They could not leave the librarian's sight while reading, and even the librarians' names were kept secret.
The Vatican was one of the smallest countries in the world, yet it was full of secrets.
Every pharaoh hoped to be remembered after death. That was why they built so many magnificent structures and waged wars everywhere. So which pharaoh had ruled Egypt when Moses led four hundred thousand Israelites out of Egypt?
A pharaoh had many wives and concubines, and thus many sons. If the firstborn died, there were still other sons to serve as heirs. He married many women in order to have more sons; this was also