Glyphs

Glyphs are encrypted messages that can appear in various locations in Assassin's Creed and Assassin's Creed II, created by Subject 16. In the first game they appear shortly before Desmond falls asleep and near the end. You can also find them in the Animus 2.0. Just before Subject 16 died, he left messages in the original Animus to tell anybody who finds it an important secret. The only way somebody would find these is to solve the puzzles relevant to the information given. There are a total of 20 glyphs found in Italy. Each provides, whether through Subject 16 or the coded messages hidden in some files, snippets of backstory to the Templars and Pieces of Eden.

Florence
Santa Croce- Japanese torii gate

La Rosa Colta- omega

Mercato Vecchio- Chinese characters 前事不忘，后事之师

San Lorenzo- Nazca line drawing of a monkey

Monteriggioni
Villa Auditore- barcode with 12/21/2012 date

Tuscany/San Gimignano
Torrei Dei Salvucci- two pagodas

Torre Del Diavolo- all-seeing eye

Santa Maria Assunta- Machu Picchu

Monte Oliveto Maggiore- Mayan pyramid

Antico Teatro Romano- butterfly

Romagna/Forlì
Abbazia San Mercuriale- Hebrew writing עולם הבא

Avamposta Veneziano- a sun and Mt. Fuji

Venice
San Giacomo Rialto- a pyramid full of eyes with an apple on top

Gilda Dei Ladri Di Venezia- three pyramids of Giza

Torre dell' Orologio- trefoils

Ponte Di Rialto- Nazca line drawing of a spider

Campanile di San Marco- pentacle

List of Glyphs
This list of glyphs is in no particular order:


 * Japanese Torii Gate
 * Chinese Writing (前事不忘，后事之师, literally "Not forgetting the past, a teacher in the future", meaning "Learn from past experience")
 * Nazca Line: The Monkey
 * Eye of Horus
 * Omega
 * Butterfly
 * Twin Pagodas
 * Step Pyramid
 * Macchu Picchu
 * Eye of Providence
 * Hebrew Writing (עולם הבא, meaning "The World To Come")
 * Mt. Fuji and the Sun
 * 12212012 Barcode
 * Nazca Line: The Spider/Ant
 * The Apple and Pyramid of Eyes
 * Pyramids of Giza
 * Pentacle/Pentagram
 * Nazca Line: The Hummingbird
 * The Mandelbrot Set
 * The Trefoils

Trivia
The number on Glyph #4 (the barcode) is actually 12/21/2012, which is the date that some believe to be the end of the world

The binary at the end of the video: 01000101 01000100 01000101 01001110 When converted to ASCII is "EDEN"