Earlier this week, I heard of a fascinating secret: the secret to youth! Sadly, it is wrapped up in this puzzle, meant to test something about the seeker. Can you figure it out?

49 90 (63-92) 8 51’ 68 23 85 8 (38-16) 22’ 14’ (61-15) 77 (38-16) 8 38’

Moctezuma I, Alara I, Qutub ud-din Aibak, Ferdinand and Isabella, Narmer, Narmer, Tariacuri, Kamehameha I, Narmer, Alara I, Narmer, Yu, Tariacuri, Cyrus II, Moctezuma I, Romulus, Tariacuri, Osman Gazi, Clovis I, Tariacuri, Kamehameha I, Manco Capec, Ferdinand and Isabella, Dido, Kublai Khan, Cyrus II, Kamehameha I, Narmer, Romulus

Wuthering Heights, Harusame Monogatari, War And Peace, Wuthering Heights, Conversations with Goethe, Salvage the Bones, Things Fall Apart, The Lie, Conversations with Goethe, War And Peace, Odyssey, Things Fall Apart, War and Peace, Things Fall Apart, Hamlet, Animal Farm, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harusame Monogatari, War and Peace, A Doll’s House, Animal Farm, Also Sprach Zarathustra, A Doll’s House, Hamlet, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, To Kill a Mockingbird, Animal Farm, Hamlet, Conversations with Goethe, Wuthering Heights, When You Are Old

20 7 39 8 92 76’ 116 (4-5) (25-7) 39 11 (25-7) (4-5)?

Dido, Moctezuma I, Alara I, Kublai Khan, Osman Gazi, Mu’awiyah I, Ferdinand and Isabella, Osman Gazi, Gyges, Harihara I and Bukka Raya I, Narmer, K’inich Yax K’uk’ Mo’, Kublai Khan, Alara I, Moctezuma I, K’inich Yax K’uk’ Mo’, Narmer?

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Things Fall Apart, Also Sprach Zarathustra, When You Are Old, Animal Farm, Harusame Monogatari, Hamlet, Animal Farm, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Aeneid, Conversations with Goethe, Moby Dick, When You are Old, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Things Fall Apart, Moby Dick, Conversations with Goethe?

(Hint: Z=Shaka, The Woman and the Rose, (30-7), and Int)