On September 13, 1924, Charles Manier and his family stopped to explore an abandoned lime kiln along Silverbell Road, near Tucson, Arizona. While poking around the weathered structure, Manier noticed something protruding from the hardened caliche. He pulled at it and finally freed a massive lead cross weighing over sixty pounds. What seemed like a curious roadside find would become one of the most debated archaeological discoveries in Arizona history. This is the story of the Tucson Artifacts.

It All Begins Here

We are going to skip all the talk of Euclid and Pythagoras and jump straight to showing you geometrically how the Maltese and Templar crosses are inseparably interwoven with how we measure time.