First Knights Templar Discovered

Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | 4-10-2006

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Meadow Muffin]

More info please....

[mnehring]

The first sentence makes most people interested in history dismiss the article. It's too bad the media is so obsessed over this fiction novel as this is quite an interesting find.

[ExcursionGuy84]

"This discovery is the equivalent of the Holy Grail to archaeologists and historians...."

Release the Monty Python's upon this thread!

[patton]

bttt

[UCANSEE2]

Thanks for posting this article.

So far, their claims seem a bit outrageous as they offer no validation nor give any explanation as to the 'how' of their ability to so precisely date this find.

[hershey]

More info, please! Extremely interesting...and relevant.

[newgeezer]

The first bodies of the Knights Templar, the mysterious religious order at the heart of The Da Vinci Code, have been found by archaeologists

How convenient. Just in time for the motion picture release.

[Gator101]

Boy is Sony Pictures going to be loving these guys. Heck, they even managed to work in a "Holy Grail" reference into their quote.

One might even think the timing of this was planned?...

[cyborg]

I'm amazed at the amount of people who rather believe the DaVinci Code rather than the Bible. Will the DaVinci Code still be a bestseller a thousand years from now?

[Xenalyte]

Ping!

[RegulatorCountry]

"British historian Tom Asbridge yesterday hailed the find as the first provable example of actual Knights Templar."

Is someone questioning the actual existence of Knights Templar? I don't "get" this statement at all. The first known instance of my own surname appears in the Templar Inquisition of 1185. I wish I could say I had proved my line, uninterrupted, back to that point, but that doesn't change the earliest record of it.

[RightWingAtheist]

[Meadow Muffin]

You are correct. It takes more to believe something like the Da Vinci code than to belive in Jesus.

[Gator101]

"This discovery is the equivalent of the Holy Grail to archaeologists and historians.

"I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries."

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Cool.

[ARCADIA]

Will the DaVinci Code still be a bestseller a thousand years from now?

Will anyone be literate a thousand years from now?

[blu]

If you think The DaVinci Code was funny, you should read "The Templar Legacy", it's out now and a real hoot! The author does make a point of telling the readers what parts of the book are real, and which are fiction. I liked his explanation of how the Templars got so rich and influential. When I finished it, I thought "hmmmm, how soon before this explanation becomes accepted as truth?". Thank goodness we have the real primary document to go to for truths.

[muir_redwoods]

....hailed the find as the first provable example of actual Knights Templar."

Really?

[ClaireSolt]

Someone doubted the historical record of Templars?

[speedy]

What is your quest?

[RegulatorCountry]

I'm a little mystified at this assertion myself.

[Wormwood]

Ah yes, the Da Vinci code. Foucault's Pendulum for retarded people.

[GOP_Party_Animal]

Oh, I've already seen one of those knights. He was in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

[Ramius]

Very cool.

[rvoitier]

This may help:

Israel Antiquities Authority

Dig around the site (no pun intended). I heard of the Authority on a Discovery Channel episode where they were excavating a structure believed to be once occupied by the Knights Templar.

[Dog Gone]

The remains were found beneath the ruined walls of Jacob's Ford, an overthrown castle dating back to the Crusades, which had been lost for centuries

How does one misplace a castle for a few centuries? I guess they didn't have Amber Alerts back then.

[RegulatorCountry]

So, they're referring to physical remains and artifacts, as opposed to historical records?

[nechayev]

probably the calendar watches that were worn by the knights were broken during the battle, so the archaeologists just had to read the time and date.

[R. Scott]

So far, their claims seem a bit outrageous as they offer no validation nor give any explanation as to the 'how' of their ability to so precisely date this find.

The date the castle fell?

[PISANO]

The first bodies of the Knights Templar.....

HUH?

They FOUND BODIES from the 12th Century??

And they KNOW the exact date of death?

[RegulatorCountry]

"How does one misplace a castle for a few centuries?"

Well, we "lost" James Cittie (Jamestown) for a few centuries, and it's only 400 years old, so I guess it's possible to lose a castle over a much longer period of time.

[Young Scholar]

My thoughts, too. Shouldn't it be "the Knights Templar, the most important Christian military order during the Crusades..."

[rvoitier]

"The first bodies of the Knights Templar"

Sounds like it, huh?

[rvoitier]

This place, too.

http://vadumiacob.huji.ac.il/

[pierrem15]

"The author does make a point of telling the readers what parts of the book are real, and which are fiction."

Unlike the NY Times!

[Rodney King]

that they were killed by Saladin, the feared Muslim leader

That can't be... I thought Saladin was the wise and peaceful ruler who only wanted muslims, christians, and jews to all get along.

[nechayev]

well, if you read the sentence very carefully, it is clear that it was the Crusades, not the castle, that had been lost for centuries.
i always embed gps chips in my castles, and i have never lost any of them.

[RegulatorCountry]

"Sounds like it, huh?"

It also sounds as if the very existence of the order was being questioned, further into the article.

[true_blue_texican]

The new hit show "CSI Jerusalem".

[true_blue_texican]

I lost my house, one night. Then I sobered up.

[RegulatorCountry]

"I lost my house, one night. Then I sobered up."

Don't you just hate it when that happens?

[fish hawk]

Funnier still you should read the story of a guy named Joseph Smith.

[Redcloak]

We're knights of the round table
We dance whene'er we're able
We do routines and chorus scenes
With footwork impeccable.
We dine well here in Camelot
We eat ham and jam and spam a lot.

We're knights of the Round Table
Our shows are formidable
But many times we're given rhymes
That are quite unsingable
We're opera mad in Camelot
We sing from the diaphragm a lot.

In war we're tough and able.
Quite indefatigable
Between our quests we sequin vests
And impersonate Clark Gable
It's a busy life in Camelot.

I have to push the pram a lot.

Let's not go there... 'Tis a silly place.

[Mike Darancette]

The first bodies of the Knights Templar, the mysterious religious order at the heart of The Da Vinci Code, have been found by archaeologists near the River Jordan in northern Israel.

Well, isn't that convenient!

[Strategerist]

There's a quite good novel by Umberto Eco (author of "The Name of the Rose" which became a movie) called "Foucault's Pendulum"...it's sort of "The DaVinci Code" for intelligent people...and has a sort of clever, unusual take on secret societies and conspiracies - has nothing to do with any purported family of Jesus or anything, but does center on the Templars.

It's long, and the first 50 pages are pretty boring, but then it gets good and you'll learn more about the Templars, Assassins, Rosicrucians, Bavarian Illuminati, etc. than you ever wanted to know.

[rvoitier]

That tone seems to be prevelant in the msm. One can sense the msm only judges from afar without doing real investigative work. But what else is new? lol

[gakrak]

Totally agree, anytime the MSM gets involved the tend to screw up the facts with their stupid spin. Amen.

[Meadow Muffin]

Thanks for the site to review.