The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar

by Steven Sora

  8. Robinson, Born in Blood, pp. 305–17.

  9. Peter Tompkins, Secrets of the Pyramids (New York: Harper and Row, 1971), p. 38.

  10. Baigent and Leigh, op. cit., pp. 252–55.

  11. Ibid., pp. 222–29.

  12. Ibid., p. 228.

  13. Morrison, op. cit., p. 354.

  14. Robert Leckie, George Washington’s War (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), pp. 445–51.

  15. Baigent and Leigh, op. cit., p. 261.

  16. Wilson, The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Mysteries, pp. 237–48.

  17. Ibid.

  18. Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, pp. 425–26.

  19. Ibid.

  20. Ibid.

  21. Ibid.

  22. Mary M. Luke, Gloriana: The Years of Elizabeth I (New York: Coward, McCann, and Geoghagen, 1973), pp. 37– 40.

  23. Ibid., p. 305.

  24. Paul Johnson, Elizabeth I (New York: Holt, Rhinehart and Winston, 1974), pp. 246–47.

  25. Picknett and Prince, op. cit., p. 87.

  26. Baigent and Leigh, op. cit., pp. 187–97.

  27. Robinson, Born in Blood, pp. 305–16.

  28. Baigent and Leigh, op. cit., pp. 204–29.

  29. O’Connor, The Big Dig, p. 6.

  30. Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln, op. cit., pp. 150–53.

  31. Fanthorpe and Fanthorpe, op. cit., pp. 6–7.

  32. Ibid., p. 62.

  33. Picknett and Prince, op. cit., p. 72.

  34. Michelle Green, “Europe’s Heads, Crowned and Otherwise, Bury Zita, the Last Hapsburg Empress,” People Weekly, vol. 31, no. 15, (April 17, 1989): pp. 50–54.

  35. Picknett and Prince, op. cit., p. 71.

  36. Michael Walsh, Opus Dei (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1989), pp. 131–59.

  37. Penny Lernoux, People of God (New York: Penguin Books, 1989), pp. 324–37.

  38. Ibid., pp. 283-301.

  Epilogue

  1. John Daly, “Solving Old Mysteries: A New Shaft May Reveal Buried Treasure,” Macleans, vol. 102, no. 12 (March 20, 1989): p. 45.

  2. Henry Lincoln, The Holy Place (London: Corgi Books, 1991), pp. 147–54.

  3. Wood, Genesis: The First Book of Revelations, p. 98.

  4. James Henderson, “In the Steps of Unrepentant Heretics,” Financial Times, March 18/19, 1995, p. 8.

  5. Sinclair, op. cit., pp. 180–91.

  6. Morrison, op. cit., pp. 138–48.

  7. Ibid., p. 164, 246.

  8. Ibid., p. 247.

  9. Fanthorpe and Fanthorpe, op. cit., pp. 144–45.

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