The Rosslyn Code: A 500-Year-Old Message in Stone

by Chris Wilson

A real mystery lurks inside the Scottish chapel made famous by The Da Vinci Code. At the back of the Rosslyn Chapel, where Dan Brown set the climactic scene of his novel, are 213 stone cubes carved with curious geometric symbols. For centuries, scholars regarded them as mere decorations. But in the 1970s, a man named Tommy Mitchell became convinced that they meant something more and set off on a decades-long quest to decode them.

Just a few years ago, Mitchell and his son Stuart finally chanced on an essential The patterns in the chapel closely resembled a natural phenomenon of musical frequencies known as Chladni patterns. This let them to the astonishing conclusion that a 500-year-old melody was frozen in the stone walls of the chapel. But how sure can they be that they are correct?

32 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 17, 2011