The following poem is found in the book The Thrill of the Chase by Forrest Fenn. It is said to contain nine clues, and upon complete understanding, will lead a person to a bronze treasure chest filled with over a million dollars worth of treasure. This chest of riches has been …
The Maranatha Puzzle included thirty-one pages of pig-pen text. Thirty of those coded pages consisted of 156 characters in a 12×13 block form. One page, however, consisted of only 103 characters. 53 spaces were left blank. Upon decipherment the page was seen to include the following phrase: “Contentment is the …
Because I had previously worked with The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam once before, I found it interesting to do so again. While reading Forrest Fenn’s book, I immediately recognized the first quatrain on page 101 of The Thrill of the Chase to be one linked to an unsolved code from …
Well, I wasn’t going to get the book or let myself get caught up in The Thrill of the Chase for the reason I told myself ‘I have not the time’. But, I couldn’t resist any longer; especially after I found myself browsing a wonderful blog about the hunt( by Dal Neitzel), …
“In silver bound, beneath the ground, I am the Spiral Horn” are the final words of The Prophecy of the True Horn. The full poem, found in The Unicornis Manuscripts by Michael Green, describes the resting place of an extraordinary treasure. Since 1983, a silver bound spiral horn has remained …
One of the most noted and first anomalies mentioned in the original Maranatha-Et in Arcadia Ego puzzle book was the ‘mistakes’ of numbering to certain pages listed in the ‘index’. Although they did not appear in the Time Monk version of the puzzle, the ‘rook parchment’ would seem to confirm …
One of the few known facts about the mystery of Rennes le Chateau was that the Grand Parchment’s code could not have been solved by using computers like Gerard de Sede was believed to have said. However, maybe this isn’t a fact any longer. It all depends on the definition …
There have been many who question why the geometry of a Star should be hidden within the paintings of Poussin and Teniers, or what significance a star, that is defined by certain locations, stones, or markers across landscapes, may have. Over the years, many enthusiasts of the Rennes le Chateau …
(The following was inspired by recent comments) During the Maranatha Puzzle, two opportunities were given to readers in which they were able to ask direct questions about the Time Monk Project to one of its authors. Using the name, Sacred Prize, spokesperson Duncan Burden answered inquiries as best he could …
On May 3rd, 2011, a guest article entitled The Time Monk Project was posted on Andrew Gough’s Arcadia website. The article, written by Duncan Burden, released a geometric depiction of the ‘Key’ involved in the armchair treasure hunt called Maranatha-Et in Arcadia Ego, and subsequently the Time Monk Project. The …
