From King Arthur to ancient Egypt, the rocky Scottish outcrop is mired in myths and legends.
When Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the swashbuckling literary classic Treasure Island, it is said, he drew inspiration from visits he paid as a child to the island of Fidra, one of a string of three rocky outcrops in the Firth of Forth off Scotland's North Berwick coast.
"Lamb is a place like no other," says Geller, from his home in Old Jaffa, Israel, "and it deserves its own identity. This is a fitting way to do it."Fidra , on which Treasure Island is said to have been based, with Lamb Island on the right But it was the intriguing - some may say dubious - claim of an amateur historical researcher which captured Geller's imagination and convinced him he had to buy it. For according to the Scottish-born investigator, Jeff Nisbet,Nisbet pointed to the layout of Lamb and the two islands on either side, which he said mirrors exactly that of the three pyramids. The pyramids' own precise geometric design has long been a source of fascination for mathematicians and Egyptologists.
One of Geller's favourite objects in his Jaffa museum is an antique set of six green, silver and gold tinted thin Some of these connections were identified by Nisbet, who asserted that Lamb sits on a confluence of ley lines - supposed paths of energy linking sites of historical significance. One runs straight through Lamb from the Isle of May, a purported burial place of the legendary King Arthur, to the Hill of Tara in Ireland, reputedly an ancient coronation site of monarchs and steeped in mythology.
Geller also sees a sign in a curious find made by archaeologists under the Ottoman-era building which now houses his museum in Old Jaffa. They unearthed amongst hundreds of artefacts a
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