Magic Squares

Magic Squares can consist of numbers or letters (word squares). A word square consists of a set of words, all having the same number of letters as the total number of words; when the words are written out in a square grid horizontally, the same set o

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Magic Squares':

  • Convent of St. Gall St Gallen Library, "in the far southeast corner you'll spot The Venerable Bede, a seventh-century English monk from Northumbria who wrote one of the first histories of England: he is shown as a scholar, with, beside him, a magic number square..."
  • Khajuraho Group of Monuments Parshvanath Jain temple (numbers)
  • Pompei Herculaneum (letters, a SATOR square)
  • Siena At the wall of the Duomo of Siena (letters, a SATOR square)