Case file 027Forgotten Histories
Scripture Cast in Lead
Metal books unearthed outside Granada promised an ancient revelation, drawing a threatened minority, an ambitious archbishop and Rome into a struggle over Spain’s past.
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Manuscripts
Case file 014Forgotten Histories
Brotherhood of the Eye
A coded German manuscript revealed the Oculists’ initiation rites, secret signals and campaign to expose the Freemasons who shared their world.
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Case file 010Culture & Legends
The Play That Fooled London
A young clerk produced Shakespeare’s lost papers and an unknown play, until a disastrous London performance exposed the fiction behind a celebrated discovery.
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