Instead of commonplace designs like flowers or snowflakes, seamstress Celestia A. Milliken decorated her colorful quilt in 1908 with the square and compass and 70 other secret symbols of Freemasonry.

Littered in the numerous conspiracy theories that are floated online are stories of the secretive - but very real - Freemasons. These Masons are said by some to be the men who secretly pull the ...

Several Masonic signs have been found 'hidden' in paintings of Scotland's bard Robert Burns. Tiny letters and symbols have been painted in minute detail in a paintings by Alexander Nasmyth, a ...

April 19, 2006 — -- Having tackled the secretive Catholic conservative group Opus Dei, Dan Brown says he's writing his next book about the Freemasons. The Freemasons say they are simply a ...

A series of Masonic signs have been found “hidden” in paintings of Scotland’s bard Robert Burns. Tiny letters and symbols - such as a comet and hooded figures - have been painted in minute detail ...

Myths and conspiracy theories surround the secretive order of Freemasons. But after three centuries of existence, the society is gradually opening itself to the public. On June 24, 1717, the day that ...

The Freemasons Society, one of the oldest fraternal organisations in the world was established in 1717 in England, and for years misunderstood as a “secret society”. The 12 Bistendu (Bombay Ebony) ...