Thursday, December 18, 2008

Question - 137

Connect the visual in the top left to the other three.

Answer: The statue in the top left is Kryptos by James Sanborn. The cover of Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code contains the latitude/longitude coordinates of this statue in code, the seal is that of CIA and the statue is in front of the CIA headquarters at Langley and the egyptian thing is the tomb of Tutankhamen. Kryptos contains a code which when partly decoded contains Howard Carter's message on opening Tut's tomb. Iam got it while Raghu, Anand and Adi were thereabouts. Well done.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Kryptos Sculpture CIA, Langley, VA

Contains an encrypted message ... blah blah

Other 3 connect to this
The emblem is CIA emblem
The Da Vinci Code book has reference to it ("Only WW knows" from the partly decrypted message)
Tuts tomb: Part of the decrypted message, is Howard Carter's words

Raghu said...

Books by Dan Brown : digital fortress, solomon key, deception point and da vinci code.

Anand said...

top left - kryptos outside CIA building, referenced in Dan Brown's Da vinci code (bottom left). Bottom right is the logo of the NSA mentioned in the Digital fortress. Top right - something from the louvre(?)

Anonymous said...

Connect: Solomon Keys/Dan Brown

The picture on the left is that of kryptos, the bottom left is a poster of Da Vinci's Code, the bottom right is the CIA logo. Don't know the significance of the egyptian heliographs.

Da Vinci's code (the book) contained the coordinates to Kryptos in the book cover. Kryptos is a sculpture outside CIA's headquarters showing a cryptographic puzzle. Dan Brown has a habit of revealing some tit-bits about his new novels in his novels, so many believe that "The Solomon Keys" will have something to do with Kryptos.