دانلود کتاب Hidden Codes & Grand Designs: Secret Languages from Ancient Times to Modern Day

History’s Ingenious Covert Communications and Secret Symbols

All civilizations have used code to hide their texts from unwelcome eyes or to bury powerful symbols within their creations: thus, they reinforce and ensure the survival of their messages through millennia. From the battlefronts and brotherhoods of ancient Greece to the frontiers of cyberspace, this remarkable book highlights a variety of hidden symbols and code systems, placing them in their true historical settings. With more than 90 brain-teasing codes and ciphers to solve, you'll learn about such fascinating true stories as the code towers of the Roman Empire, the twelfth-century Knights Templar, the sixteenth-century Venetian Council of Ten, the Kabbalists, and the Masonic symbols hard-coded into Washington. D.C. by the founding fathers, brought from an all-but-forgotten symbolic place in old Europe. Spanning more than two millennia, Hidden Codes & Grand Designs unlocks many of humankind's great encryption adventures and artistic mysteries.