: The authors claim a secret society called the Priory of Sion has protected this bloodline for centuries, a secret supposedly shared by the Knights Templar. Why It Is a Cultural "Piece" Inspiration for The Da Vinci Code
) is a famous work of pseudohistory published in 1982 by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln. The Central Theory
La Santa Sangre y el Santo Grial (originally titled The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
was never a literal chalice used at the Last Supper. Instead, the authors argue: The "Sang Real" Pun
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