The seventh of October 2023 is a seminal day in the history of the world. The nation of Israel stands devasted by the sheer scale of barbarity. Its citizens taken away as hostages, it goes to war against the perpetrators with a vengeance. But this war has now been intermittently conflagrating for some 3500 years. Now it shows all signs of taking the world down an abyss with it. Cohen, a son of a Jewish American immigrant and now a professor of History at Columbia University wishes the carnage to end. This takes him back to Shastriji an old pundit who he met in the centenary celebrations of the World Congress of Religions held at Chicago in 1993. Thus begins a roller coaster journey to connect the missing dots of a collective human sojourn by taking into account the stories passed down as mythology of multiple ancient civilizations. As the story progresses the picture becomes much sharper. Our ancient world was definitely much more interconnected than what we would like to believe….