Talisman: Sacred Cities, Secret Faith
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Talisman - Sacred Cities, Secret Faith is a book by Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval, published by Penguin UK, 27 May 2004.
Talisman[1] reviews history to uncover traces (in monuments and architecture) of a secret religion that has supposedly helped to shape the world. The story visits Heliopolis, Luxor, Alexandria, Toulouse, Florence, Rome, Paris, London, Washington, D.C. and New York, and finally examines the events which followed the September 11, 2001 attacks. It is a tale of romance and intrigue, heroism and faith, peopled by ancient Egyptian astronomer priests, Christian Gnostics, Hermetic sages, learned Jews, Arab savants, Occitan Counts, Cathar "perfecti", Knights Templar, Renaissance magi, Rosicrucian "invisibles", Bavarian Illuminati and Freemasons.
Pivotal historical events and processes, not least the Renaissance, the birth of scientific rationalism, and the French and American Revolutions, are re-evaluated in the light of new investigative evidence, supposedly presented for the first time in Talisman. The book suggests that the United States' "global mission" may ultimately prove to be less the result of a short-term reaction to terrorism than the result of a covert plan set in motion almost 2,000 years ago.
It is worth noting that the revelations contained in the book have not so far engendered a single article in a peer-reviewed history journal. Despite the book's claims to fundamentally alter humanity's understanding of its past, nobody apart from the authors has so far followed up the book's thesis.
