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I haven't read the book but why would anyone think Da Vinci would have any special knowedge about any of this? The guy was born one and a half millennia after the events in the New Testament.

Bingo! I have read the book, and I am astounded at the number of people who think that Leonardo Da Vinci somehow had some special knowledge about the events of the Bible which took place fifteen hundred years before his birth. Most people who think that he did also think that Da Vinci and Jesus Christ were contemporaries!

That being said, I found the book to be amusing entertainment, and I admit that I did enjoy looking at Mr. Da Vinci's artwork again to find the "clues."

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I have not read The Da Vinci code but I did read Holy Blood, Holy Grail, the "non-fiction" book that it drew most of the material from. In Holy Blood, Holy Grail the claim is made that Da Vinci once headed a secret French society that was set up to protect this secret. This secret order created the Knights Templar who went to the Holy Land and there found certain treasures that were hidden from the Romans when the Temple fell in 70. Among these was the information aluded to in the code.

A few years ago a French court exposed the current leader fo the society as fraud. The secret society in Holy Blood, Holy grail was really created from whole cloth in the 1950's so the whole story with regards to Da Vinci and any secret he could have known has been debunked.