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When a 250 year old code is finally cracked, a secret society is revealed

There are hundreds of really old to ancient manuscripts out there in museums and libraries and collections that for one reason or another have yet to be deciphered. And when a code is finally broken, it unleashes new information about the past, and sometimes it reveals the existence of a secret society that existed in Germany in the 1740s.

posted 29 November, 2012
by cranberryzero
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Scientists crack the code on secret 19th century Masonic text

Known as the Copial Cipher, the 105-page document was written in Germany over 250 years ago, using complex code that had seemed uncrackable. But using cutting edge cryptography techniques, USC professor Kevin Wright and an international team of experts finally solved this 19th century Masonic text.