Shugborough inscription
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shugborough-inscription-188-2472333
title:
Shugborough inscription
text:
The Shugborough Inscription is a sequence of letters – O U O S V A V V, between the letters D M on a lower plane – carved on the 18th-century Shepherd's Monument in the grounds of Shugborough Hall in Staffordshire, England, below a mirror image of Nicolas Poussin's painting the Shepherds of Arcadia. It has never been satisfactorily explained, and has been called one of the world's top uncracked ciphertexts. In 1982, the authors of the pseudohistorical The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail suggested
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description:
Unsolved cryptogram carving in Staffordshire, England
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shugborough_inscription
date created:
2004-08-18T01:21:55Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T20:07:23Z
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