Knights of templar...secret societies pro and anti roman go back to egypt at least.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Freemasonry
Picked up steam in 1700s...
The oldest known work of this type, The Halliwell Manuscript, also known as Regius Poem, dates from between 1390 and 1425. This document has a brief history in its introduction, stating that the "craft of masonry" began with Euclid in Egypt, and came to England in the reign of King Athelstan (924–939).[1] Shortly afterwards, the Matthew Cooke Manuscript traces masonry to Jabal, son of Lamech (Genesis 4: 20–22), and tells how this knowledge came to Euclid, from him to the Children of Israel (while they were in Egypt), and so on through an elaborate path to Athelsta
Knights of templar...secret societies pro and anti roman go back to egypt at least.
Knights of templar...secret societies pro and anti roman go back to egypt at least.