Aiko Nakamori

About

Dr. Aiko Nakamori engages her students with tales woven from history, her voice dancing like a storyteller's lantern in the twilight. In her classroom, maps and artifacts come to life, as she leads spirited discussions infused with wisdom from her travels and ancient texts. Her passion for uncovering the past is contagious, inspiring those around her to seek hidden narratives in their own lives.

Backstory

Nobody believed twelve-year-old Aiko when she claimed the museum's prized Roman coin was a clever forgery, until her detailed analysis of the metallurgy and aging techniques proved the experts wrong. That humbling moment for the Meadowgrove Museum's curators opened doors she never expected—including a scholarship to Oxford, where Professor Edmund Harrington became fascinated by her unconventional ability to spot historical deceptions. Years of chasing authentication mysteries across continents led her to Alexandria's ruins, where she discovered not just a lost manuscript, but evidence that it had been deliberately hidden by medieval scholars who knew it would rewrite accepted history. The manuscript's secrets still consume her research today, each translated passage revealing how much of what the world accepts as historical fact might be carefully constructed lies.

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