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====The Code====

Connected to the unidentified man and the focus of this project is the five-line code in Figure 1. No one has yet extracted meaning from the code despite over 60 years of attempts.

[[Image:The_Code.png|thumb|300px|center|The code found in the back of the Rubaiyat linked to the Somerton Man.]]

<center>'''Figure 1 - The Somerton Man code'''</center>

The code was found as a faint pencil marking in the back of a book containing a collection of Persian poems titled [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubaiyat_of_Omar_Khayyam The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam]. A man in Glenelg found the book after it was tossed into the back seat of his car sometime during the night of November 30, 1948. On the last page of the book the words “Tamám Shud”, meaning ended of finished in Persian, had been removed. A small piece of paper with these words printed on it was found in a concealed pocket in the deceased man’s clothing. Later testing confirmed the piece of paper originated from the book<ref name=TamamShudWiki>''Tamam Shud Case'', Wikipedia Foundation Inc, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Shud_Case</ref>.

No one has yet determined the meaning of this code and deciphering it provides the basis and inspiration for this project.