Amazing amazing book.
A solid gold bear is found in a Russian excavation site. A historian sets out to discover the origins of the bear with a colleague.

Somehow they get lost on the way. Time slips away and they find themselves caught in a time warp.

I simply couldn't put this book down and it is the last time I read something that I didn't want to end. When I got close to finishing. I slowed way down because I didn't want to finish.

It was that good.