Update, October 8, 2009: Dan Brown's new novel The Lost Symbol takes readers on a spine-tingling tour of some of Washington, D.C.'s most famous buildings. With Masonic symbolism as its theme, the book ...

Ancient symbols, secret rites, conspiracies, politicians and the oldest fraternity in the world - the Freemasons have the history and image of a blockbuster thriller. That may be why Dan Brown, author ...

WINNIPEG – The seat of political power in Manitoba is the last place one might expect to find the bust of Medusa, recurring odes to “666” and the number 13, alongside Egyptian sphinxes etched with ...

EAGLE — That dashing young man in the black and white photo resplendent in the bowtie is George McCollum, who has led Masonic Lodges in Eagle and Leadville several times. On Sept. 22, 1973, McCollum ...

Emulation Hall, a former Masonic centre, was built in 1927 and features ancient Egyptian motifs like a golden-winged dung beetle and astrological symbols. In 2012, the lodge was almost demolished, but ...

There were predictions that The Lost Symbol would antagonise the Freemasons in the same way that the Catholic Church was stung by The Da Vinci Code. But far from attacking the Masons, his new work ...