The Grail (many spoilers)
What a buffoon!
Luckily Ashley overlaid the medieval "grail map" at just the right scale so that the star covered America. If he hadn't used just the right scale, he might be searching for the grail in Central Africa, or maybe in the Atlantic Ocean.
1) he doesn't know when this "map" was engraved. It could have been before America was "discovered" by Columbus.
2) were medieval europeans familiar with the concept of an equator or where it fell in their yet unexplored world?
Freemason towers:
Ashley claims that the Plymouth tower and Bunker Hill Monument have "undeniable similarities" to the "grail map." But, only in that the carving shows some ambiguous lines that might be a tower, and that the two towers in Mass are towers.
Also, he completely ignores the fact that the urn IS an urn, complete with an inscription for the deceased "J.W. Aged 33."
Ashley only sees what he wants to see, and that is very dangerous when you are trying to discover truth.
Washington DC
AMAZING! There was a straight line between the Washington Monument and the Masonic Temple. Could there be anything BUT a straight line between two points on a map????????
After a little internet searching, the DC masonic temple constrcution began in 1911, whereas the Washington Monument (1848) and Capitol building (1793)began construction much earlier. Seems like (not clear) the temple was in a different location during the earlier constructions, so Ashley's use of the Masonic square to lead to the Capitol seems totally arbitrary.
Finally: Again, LUCKILY, Ashley claims the grail was melted down and incorporated into the original Statue of Liberty torch (where is the evidence for that? Would anyone really destroy a 1800 year old relic?). Of course this is impossible to verify.