Books Mentioned in This Episode

Podcast: Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

Episode: CLASSIC: The Shugborough Inscription Cipher | STUFF THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW

Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.

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Proceedings

by Royal Institute of British Architects

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"In another book called Anson's Gold, a fellow named George Edmund says that we have to remember George Anson was a naval man—he was an admiral! And George Edmund argues that Anson created this cipher to hide the latitude and longitude of an island where he had buried or discovered a huge Spanish treasure! Oh, it's a treasure map!"
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Holy Blood, Holy Grail

by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln

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"In 1982, the author of a book called The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail speculated that the painter you had mentioned earlier, uh, Poussin, was a member of what's called the Priory of Sion! And we remember we interviewed, uh, the daughter of one of the authors; Vent was her last name, I believe! Uh, fascinating story!"
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The Da Vinci Code (Republish)

by Dan Brown

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"And you know, this is very Dan Brown! Dan Brown leans very heavily on this in one of his books, at least in The Da Vinci Code! And the idea is that this bloodline was, uh, secreted away!"