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Dan is sure then to be intrigued by the news that Kryptos designer James Sanborn has released a clue to help puzzle-solvers decipher the last remaining message hidden ‘within’ the sculpture, telling the New York Times that six letters from the remaining 97 letters that have yet to be solved — NYPVTT — are the 64th through 69th letters of the final 97 characters, and that they decipher to the word BERLIN:

It’s the first clue Sanborn has revealed in four years, after he corrected a typo in his sculpture in 2006 to keep crypto detectives from being derailed in their search for solutions.

Sanborn told Threat Level last week that he wanted to reveal a clue to mark the 20th anniversary of the sculpture’s dedication at CIA headquarters in 1990. He said it would be a “significant clue” and hinted that it would “globalize” the sculpture. Asked if this meant it would take the sculpture off CIA grounds and out of the United States, he conceded it would.

Code detectives were already at work trying to crack the rest of the solution Saturday afternoon following the new clue revelation. Members of a popular Kryptos Yahoo Group were brainstorming during a 90-minute conference call.

“The ‘Berlin’ clue makes a lot of sense, in historical context of the Berlin Wall coming down that year,” says code cracker Elonka Dunin, a game designer who moderates the Yahoo Group and maintains a comprehensive web site on Kryptos.

To keep up to date with any new discoveries, your best bet is to visit Elonka Dunin’s Kryptos webpage. (For the trivia lovers out there, Dan Brown seems to have given an anagrammatic nod to Dunin in the naming of the character ‘Nola Kaye’ in The Lost Symbol).

Lauer then wondered whether the next book would take as long as The Lost Symbol did (5 years after DVC), to which DB replied “I have been informed…by my wife, that if this new novel takes as long as The Lost Symbol, my next media appearance will be on The Bachelor.”

Here’s the full interview:

Good to hear!

Nevada’s Freemasons are opening up their doors to the public on Saturday.

If you have every wondered what goes on in those buildings marked with the square and compass, here’s your chance to go inside.

Transworld says it has the biggest paperback subscription in its 60-year history for Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, out on 22nd July. The publisher also announced there will be more Brown to come for Christmas, with an illustrated version of the book and an enhanced e-book “in the pipeline” for November.

More than 750,000 copies of the new paperback have been subbed across the publisher’s UK and international markets, with over 1,300 free-standing display units also shipped out. Publisher Bill Scott-Kerr said support from all retailers had been “stellar”. He said: “Dan Brown started out here as a paperback phenomenon and The Lost Symbol is perfectly positioned to continue that momentum.”

The Lost Symbol has done some pretty huge business in the UK, but doesn’t seem to have had the media impact that The Da Vinci Code did. Not enough scandal and controversy no doubt – DB made those Freemasons far too nice…

After centuries of being kept under lock and key, the Vatican has started opening its Secret Archives to outsiders in a bid to dispel the myths and mystique created by works of fiction such as Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons.

The archives, until now jealously guarded from prying eyes, provide one of the key settings in Brown’s thriller, in which Harvard "symbologist" Robert Langdon, played in the 2009 film by Tom Hanks, races against time to stop a secret religious order, the Illuminati, from destroying Vatican City.

…They have been open to carefully vetted academic researchers for more than 100 years, but in the last few months the Vatican has granted tours to select groups of journalists and members of the public, allowing a glimpse into one of its inner most sanctums.

Note though that the ‘secret’ archives remain off-limits; so hardly the Vatican’s dirty laundry laid out for all to see. Full story here.

Amazon has built a “Popular Highlights” section that showcases the book passages underlined by Kindle readers–a 21st Century twist on literary quotation. So far, that list has been dominated by The Shack by William P. Young, Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, and The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown.

Here is the most underlined passage from Brown’s most higlighted title–underlined by 1,161 Kindle users: “Langdon came face-to-face with a bronze bust of Masonic luminary Albert Pike, along with the engraving of his most famous quote: WHAT WE HAVE DONE FOR OURSELVES ALONE DIES WITH US; WHAT WE HAVE DONE FOR OTHERS AND THE WORLD REMAINS AND IS IMMORTAL.”

Does that make Albert Pike bigger than Jesus?