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The Templars' Secret Island: The Knights, the Priest and the Treasure
The Templars' Secret Island The Knights the Priest and the Treasure Author:Erling Haagensen, Henry Lincoln The Templars' Secret Island describes the intriguing links between mediaeval Scandinavia, France and Jerusalem. How men of influence such as Bernard of Claircaux, the Templar Grand Maser Bertrand de Blanchefort and a Danish bishop all worked together in the twelfth century to preserve a fantastic secret. The trail has spanned Europe... more » and has led as far as ancient Palestine. A further twist came when the authors found that in 1911 a forgotten Swedish-led expedition had burrowed beneath the City of David, echoing the activities of the fables Knights Templar, almost eight hundred years earlier. What that expedition unearthed forms a bridge to the island two thousand miles away.
The Bornholm churches also show a brilliant approach to one of the great -- and still unsolved -- mathematical puzzles of antiquity, which has taxed the ingenuity of scholars such as Descartes through the centuries.« less