encrypted messages and mysterious symbols

[Owl Mirror]

I have always been interested in symbolism and the mysteries that often surround them.
This morning I read an article about a new book being released today.

LOST SYMBOLS FOUND?

Mystery sleuth Greg Taylor knew years ago what "Da Vinci Code" author Dan Brown would be talking about in the follow-up thriller now known as "The Lost Symbol," which is due for release on Tuesday. So he rounded up a whole book's worth of found symbols with puzzling histories, all having to do with Washington, the Founding Fathers and Freemasonry.
You don't have to read "The Lost Symbol" to get hooked on the historical puzzles lying in and around the nation's capital - including a puzzle that even super-symbologist Robert Langdon would be hard-pressed to solve.

We're talking about the Kryptos sculpture at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Va.
http://elonka.com/kryptos/

There are many websites that offer information about these mysterious symbols around the world, here are a few to get you started if you are so inclined.

http://www.thelostsymbol.com/

http://www.thecryptex.com/

http://www.dailygrail.com/

http://www.masonicinfo.com/greatseal.htm

http://elonka.com/kryptos/

I hope you enjoy them as much as I do !

 

[ItsAllOver]

Yea. After I read Digital Fortress by Dan Brown I got into cryptography and it's a lot of fun.
I started cracking codes for fun. I have since fallen out of that, but I'd like to reread The Code Book, by Simon Singh, which taught me a lot.
Thanks for the links

 

[Maj.Cottonmouth]

Interesting stuff

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2005/01/66334

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/07/mystery-at-ferm/

 

[JackTheGrower]

I'm in!

I write and have written many encoders and decoders..

I've tried to compress the million digit file for years.. http://marknelson.us/2006/06/20/million-digit-challenge/

I still plan to get back to it but while imagination can see other realities we are limited by the one that we exist in.. like a mouse in a soap bubble floating in a universe of bubbles.

You guys know there is a thread in Spiritual called "The answer is in the math" right?

Come on down!

I really can represent all binary numbers is N-1 bit space... That's child's play..

 

[JackTheGrower]

I have always been interested in symbolism and the mysteries that often surround them.
This morning I read an article about a new book being released today.

LOST SYMBOLS FOUND?



There are many websites that offer information about these mysterious symbols around the world, here are a few to get you started if you are so inclined.

http://www.thelostsymbol.com/

http://www.thecryptex.com/

http://www.dailygrail.com/

http://www.masonicinfo.com/greatseal.htm

http://elonka.com/kryptos/

I hope you enjoy them as much as I do !

hey HULU.com has http://www.hulu.com/watch/63741/nova-cracking-the-maya-code?c=News-and-Information#s-p1-so-i0

Maya Code. That was a nice video..

 

[Buffalo Brown]

Anything Dan Brown has ever written he probably got from Jordan Maxwell. Shit, Maxwell wrote Matrix of Power in i think 1992? The Matrix movie came out when ?

If you like symbolism and hidden meanings, or double meanings, to scripture or ancient artifacts, check out Manly P. Hall. He wrote The Secret Teachings of All Ages, among many others.

 

[JWP]

I like this.

I also like things that are in your face everyday that may have deep meanings or life lessons that we just cant comprehend until you have lived it.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/proverbs.html

 

[crafteala]

Exist more lost codes and symbols. The bible book is an example about an ancient code who hass lost because the book was manually copied thousand of years and words are replaced by copiers as they want. Almost in any ancient city, even Egypt or Mesopotamia, exist unknown symbols in their writings or incorporated in their buildings.

 

[TxMatt]

http://www.crystalinks.com/icastones.html
The Ica STones
The stones depict a wide variety of scenes: dinosaurs attacking or helping humans, advanced technology, advanced medical operations, maps, and sexual depictions. While there is a degree of ambiguity that leaves room for differing interpretations, they display definite knowledge of things that are wholly anachronistic. They have caught the attention of many people inclined to question aspects of modern science, and Creationists and others have used the Ica stones to argue against prevailing scientific theories.
The stones come in all sizes. There are small ones that can fit in the palm of you hand while others are more massive. All of the stones have images that have been carved with continuous lines etched into the rock surface. The etching reveals a lighter color than the original dark varnish of age, yet the etched grooves also bear traces of this varnish, indicating that the carving was done in ancient times.

They are a form of Andesite, a gray to black volcanic rock, and a very hard mineral that would make etching quite difficult with primitive tools, a local river rock, covered with a patina of natural oxidation. Laboratories in Germany have authenticated the incisions that make up the carvings as extremely ancient. Nearby fossil finds indicate the area to be replete in bone fragments millions of years old.

Unlike clay figurines that have organic material (i.e. straw) in their composition, there are no organic materials in plain old rock that will tell anything of its age. Traditional radiocarbon dating techniques rely upon organic material (that was once alive) to determine age. The surface of these rocks, however, has a varnish that is the result of bacteria and minute organisms which have adhered to them. A good black varnish or patina will take thousands of years to discolor and coat each stone. Etching these rocks would have removed the existing varnish, revealing the bare rock. Since these rocks have developed additional varnish in the grooves, it seems likely that they have were carved a long time ago.