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The pigpen cipher aka Masonic cipher
January 11th, 2009 | Author: Haider al-Khateeb
Have you seen a code similar to this before?
An interesting example from real life is the stone of James Leeson, who died in 1792. For a long time, the box-and-dot code at the top of the stone (Figure 1) remained a mystery for the public, but the secret was revealed as Meyer Berger explained in his NY Times column in the 1950s, it was finally decrypted. It says: “Remember death”. It was a Masonic cipher.
Figure 1: Stone of James Leeson 1
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