And it was all thoroughly discredited then and exposed as a bunch of lies to sell a book. Dan Brown is capitalizing on that and the media is giving him a free pass. The conspiracy theory of Holy Blood, Holy Grail is not open for debate, it has been debunked.
I saw a program on The History Channel two nights ago about the stuff in HBHG, and the crap about "The Priory of Sion" was ADMITTED to be a made up fraud by its creator.......
Three words to define the position of the pro-Da Vinci Code crowd ("Fake but accurate").