Title: The Author based his book on a Hoax
Review: The "Priory of Sion", which was central to the authors' hypothesis in Holy Blood Holy Grail, never actually existed as described. Far from having a "history (that) spanned more than a millennium," the Priory was a hoax created by a pretender to the throne of France, Pierre Plantard, a convicted con-man, in 1953. As part of his hoax, Plantard had planted numerous bogus documents in the French National Library, as well as in the 1967 book Le Trésor Maudit de Rennes-le-Chateau. (For more details, see The Priory of Sion, Rennes-le-Chateau, and Pierre Plantard). The authors' hypothesis in The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail was significantly premised on the veracity of these documents. As a result, the revelation that the Priory documents were indeed fabricated serves to detract from much of the book's impact and plausibility.
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