![]() Parker’s winning argument was that this paltry sum would recover not only the world’s most famous sacred artifact, but also an enormous fortune. They ponied up the equivalent of $2.4 million today to cover expenses. Ogden Armour to the duchess of Marlborough. His status, charm and dashing looks proved irresistible to an array of investors, from Chicago meatpacker J. He agreed to serve as the expedition leader and set up a syndicate to sell 60,000 one-pound shares in the venture. Juvelius traveled across Europe, fruitlessly seeking a patron until he secured an introduction to Captain Montagu Brownlow Parker, the 30-year-old brother of an English earl.Ī Boer War veteran and feckless London socialite, Parker was intrigued. But he was convinced the sacred objects rested in a Jerusalem tunnel. The surviving notes of Valter Juvelius are a mass of scribbled numbers, obscure phrases and references to scripture, so exactly which cipher he claimed to have decoded is unclear. It all began when an obscure Scandinavian scholar suggested that he had unraveled a secret biblical code that pinpointed the site of the buried sacred treasure. “There is plenty more evidence in the house like the wall paintings of the tabernacle that there is something going on.Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested CityĪ sweeping history of the hidden world below the Holy City-a saga of biblical treasures, intrepid explorers and political upheaval Buy “I’m very excited about it and it’s not cynicism about the story that I think it is unlikely something will be found – that is because of the inaccessibility of the tunnels. “I think the theory is very good, well researched and I’m very impressed by David’s work.” “I’m totally wedded to the idea that there is something there,” she told SWNS. “It’s a hugely important site and I first saw it with my late husband David in 1990 because we liked timber framed houses. LOOK: The First Time a 10-Year-old Boy Uses His Birthday Metal Detector, He Unearths a Centuries-Old Sword It is nationally designated as a Grade II historical building- which means it is of ‘special interest warranting every effort to preserve’ it.ĬHECK OUT: One of Archaeology’s Great Mysteries Nearly Solved as Scientists Piece Together 2,000-yo Astronomy Calculator SWNS The researcher, who previously made headlines when he tracked down a 10,000-year-old skull known as ‘Greta’, wants to start his search with a geophysical scan. Kate Murphy, the current owner has now given David permission to search the vast caverns under her home in a bid to solve the mystery. RELATED: Archaeologists Discover ‘Dazzling’ 3,000-Year-old Egyptian City, Left ‘As if it were yesterday’ĭavid said the family living in Sinai House at the time left in the early 1300s, and Burton Abbey then took over the property, which was hidden by Needham Forest atop a hill that drops into the Trent Valley. I think they adapted the tunnels to conceal whatever they brought from Jerusalem.” “We know there is really strong evidence they brought manuscripts and gold from the Temple of Solomon in 1307. The opening was sealed with bricks – SWNS The cellar’s stone archway has remained bricked up since. In 1880, a dig took place in the Sinai House tunnels and archaeologists reached half-a-mile underground before being ‘forced back by fumes’. “A geologist once told me that there were caverns as big as Westminster Abbey beneath the house,” he told the Express. The two key points for Adkins is the labyrinth of natural tunnels and caves and the timing of when Burton Abbey monks took possession of that house-at the same time as the Templars were trying to conceal that hoard. “The name Sinai really shouts at you from the pages of history because you have got no other ancient house with that name.” “Sinai House is the most obvious place once you get inside the mind of a medieval Templar,” he says. There are theories about Oak Island in Nova Scotia and Roslyn Chapel in Scotland but it has never been found.” ![]() “There are so many pointers that when Knights Templar left La Rochelle in 1307 we know they had a treasure. “I’ve been researching it for 34 years, so I’ve really got a complete history of the place and looked into archives that no one had touched before,” said the 50-year-old. David is now hoping to search the labyrinth of tunnels beneath the 14th century house to prove the Holy Grail was hidden there.
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