Mr Bill Kersey
dekpublish@blueyonder.co.uk
http://www.keysofantiquity.com
020 8337 0510 | About My Writing The golden thread running through my books is woven around the rich tapestry of the Razes in SW France. My interest in the earth sciences, particularly with regard to mineralogical and archaeological treasures have drawn me into writing by necessity. By virtue of locating what appears to be the royal Visigothic hoard in Languedoc it has become important to prepare my application for a successful archaeological excavation in 2010. To achieve this, both knowledge and a degree of success in the field are essential for close co-operation with the French authorities. By writing and publishing in this area of expertise and by continued research the required objectives are moving closer. As part of the research team recently making exciting discoveries in the area, certain artifacts have come to light, which do have a bearing on the subject. Though much of the finds relate to periods before and after the Visigothic era, one particular document has sent me off on a new line of research that pinpoints the location of the Visigoth's Sacred Treasure of Jerusalem. Ther book with all the answers 'Keys of Antiquity and the Ancient Cipher' is due out this year. As a novel, this book is about the background behind those who were involved in the concealing of the Temple Treasure as well as the eventual recovery and final outcome of this aspect of the mysteries surrounding Rhedae,once the Visigoth capital, now the hilltop village at the centre of a whirlwind of controversy. Readers must make their own decision as to how much is the truth, but all must now be revealed. It is nominally a work of fiction based on history as I was not around in 410 AD when Rome was sacked by the Goths and Visigoths. It is as lively a tale as could weave the cloth of our wildest fantasies. While Truth stands in her own right perhaps we shall be able to stitch together a suspicion of a garment fit to robe her as she blows her silver trump over the rivers, hills and villages of Languedoc and in other lands. The Journal Rhedesium contains some of my articles including translations from French texts. The objective of this erudite journal is to move closer towards archaeological fact and to provide a constructive forum for research.
| Authors' Register: | About My Background Some decades have slipped by since Bill Kersey became embroiled in the Rennes saga. By 1972 he had acquired many of the special skills essential to tackle this challenge with any hope of success. At that time he watched part of a BBC documentary about a possible treasure hidden near the village of Rennes-le-Château in South-West France This was just the project Bill needed so he used his mineral exploration skills in conjunction with stereo aerial photography to come up with a possible solution as to the location of the hoard. From that moment, his long-term plan was to bring this to the light of day. Nevertheless, this would not at the expense of his family or regular livelihood.
His special talents developed from his formative years. Bill grew up during the 1939 to 1945 war years. At that time, the family lived in Surrey near London between three airfields and so endured some of the rigors of war. He received his education at the grammar school nearby. Fortunately, the language subjects that he studied included both French and Latin. After leaving school, Bill spent some time working on Scottish genealogy before serving two years as an armourer in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. A year of his service was spent in Libya attached to the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards and 16th/5th Lancers. Much of this time he was working in the desert with the light aid detachment. Leisure activities included exploring the ancient Roman ruins where he was stationed at Sabratha near Tripoli or swimming and diving in the unspoiled Mediterranean Sea.
Returning to England, he settled into a career in the travel industry with Thomas Cook in London. However, travel took him to Rhodesia where he settled with his wife and son and worked for Central African Airways. This included some time spent in Nyasaland as Assistant Senior Sales Supervisor at Blantyre. Again, he had time on his hands. Bill served as Diving Officer in the newly formed Salisbury Branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club, which team achieved the Empire record for fresh water deep diving, using air, in the Sinoia Caves. On the Zambezi Kariba Hydroelectric Dam project. Bill became part of a commercial diving team, Associated Divers. They undertook all diving work on the project as well as other commercial and police diving. Bill still found time to develop his mineral exploration and mining skills including operating beryllium and alluvial gold claims in Rhodesia. This included rediscovering the lost Woolly Dog gold mine near Bulawayo.
When Rhodesia declared itself independent, under the government led by Ian Smith, Bill was working for UTA French Airlines. However, UTA's flights were curtailed due to sanctions so he moved to Johannesburg in South Africa with Lufthansa and was later transferred to Capetown. While there, Bill also worked evenings and nights for IBM on the early generation of computers. This skill training stood him in good stead on his return to England. From Capetown he worked his passage to England as a greaser just at the moment that this story begins. With the passage of time, the author has consolidated his computer and engineering skills while working on a wide variety of major petro-chemical, sub-sea, tunneling and water projects including the Channel Tunnel and the Libyan Great Man Made River project. Petro-chemical and sub-sea projects include Morecambe Gas Field, Liverpool Bay, Whych Farm, and the West of Shetland development. He kept his mineral exploration skills tuned by sourcing the gold and mercury deposits on the Gold Mines River in Ireland, work on dams and subsidence issues. More recently he has been involved in pinpointing the precise location of the Rhodes Treasure in the Uinta Mountains in preparation for an archaeological excavation.
Bill Kersey's planned retirement from projects was linked to his part-time work with a publishing house over several years. The purpose of this was to learn the skills he would need to publish and bring into print some of his discoveries made in the most exciting of all his projects.
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Still Spins the Spider of Rennes-le-Chateau | | | Genre: Art and Treasure
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 | | As the nineteenth century drew to a close, the tiny village of Rennes-le-Château on a hilltop in South-West France, became the centre of a fabulous discovery. What was the secret possessed by abbé Bérenger Saunière who, between 1891 and 1917, disposed of more than one and a half thousand million in old francs, valued in 1913 at sixty million pounds?
The author has taken up the challenge of bringing the secrets of the Visigoths and Knights Templar out of obscurity, and into the light of day.
In this trail of discovery that stretches over three decades, Bill Kersey tracks down the famed, but lost, immense golden hoard of Rennes-le-Château as he explores the thorny paths and rugged landscape. Following the clues hidden in the Old Masters paintings, the trail of ciphers and mystery leads us through graveyards and ancient chapels to unimaginable riches. You, the Reader, will be drawn into a web of intrigue and secrets employed by the Templars to conceal their rituals and wealth.
GPS technology has been used to pinpoint one of the main treasure troves for the archaeological excavation that will eventually take place. Moreover, the cipher key that is revealed for the first time in this book has been used in Pompeii. This was prior to the eruption of Vesuvius that engulfed both Pompeii and Herculaneum bursting the skulls of the inhabitants and burying the area under 20 metres of volcanic ash.
This book is now available in E-Book form.
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| The Accursed Treasure of Rennes-le-Chateau | | | Genre: Treasure, Templars
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 | | Here for the first time we have the English translation of the book by Gérard de Sède that triggered the fascinating search for the ancient treasures of the Templars and Visigoths. It takes us to the very heart of the age-old mystery surrounding the treasure of Rennes. Bérenger Saunière, the mysterious priest of Rennes-le-Château who uncovered this great secret now beckons us to follow the multi-million pound clues he built into his domain; his legacy to us from the past.
The author follows the twisted threads of gold woven into the rich tapestry of Southwest France where Visigoths, Cathars, Templars and the Church wrestled for the control of the minds and wealth of the Occitane, now known as Languedoc. It is a tale steeped in mystery and intrigue and the blood of those who clutch in their untimely graves, the key that may unlock this powerful secret.
The English translation undertaken by Bill Kersey, assisted by his brother Roger. This has recently been followed by Roger's Kersey's translation of Gérard de Sède's re-assessment twenty years later in "Rennes-le-Château, the Dossier, the Impostures, the Fantasies, the Hypotheses", also published by DEK Publishing.
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| Keys of Antiquity and the Ancient Cipher | | | Genre: Treasure
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 | | Bérenger Saunière, the mysterious priest of Rennes-le-Château left a series of documents recently discovered by the research team, which included Bill Kersey. A particular portion of the deciphered text told Bill that the priest had known the location of the 'Sacred Treasure' towards the close of the nineteenth century. The cipher key that verified for Bill the location of the hoard in 1972 was the same used by the abbé Saunière when he defined the location of the hoard over a century ago. However, to Bill’s dismay the priest named it the ‘Royal Treasure’! Back to the drawing board, as Bill renews his search for the 'Sacred Treasure' in the heavy atmosphere of intrigue that engulfs everything to do with Rennes-le-Château. The Visigoths employed a special system round 500AD when they hid away the Jerusalem Temple treasure that Titus carried off to Rome. When the Goths sacked Rome in 410AD their spoils included the Temple Treasure. So both the Royal and the Sacred Treasures of the Visigoths lie buried near the former capital city, Rhedae, now Rennes-le-Château. But powers and principalities conspire to thwart Bill’s efforts along with the rugged terrain, complex ciphers, dark tunnels and darker intrigue. He can now succeed. Find out when his story finally reaches publication in 2011, if The Powers that be cannot find a way to block it. The last in the ‘Keys of Antiquity’ series hits the ground running in 'Keys of Antiquity and the Ancient Cipher’. Lets hope that the sudden flood of gold does not upset the money markets of the world. There is so much happening in recent discoveries featured in the 'Bloodline' film in which Bill features strongly that this book will now be published in 2011 as so much has recently been brought to light that warrants further research in Jerusalem before the research can be concluded not to mention the recent tracking down of the 'Sacred Treasure' being the Jerusalem Temple treasure location!
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