Title: Erm, the BBC blew this out of the water
Review: Yes this is a fantastic read but as Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum" shows - it's a house of cards. In 1998 the BBC did a documentary about "The Tomb of God", an attempt to solve the Rennes-le-Chateau mystery. In it they showed Pierre de Plantard-Sinclair to be a proven fraudster who has served prison time for it and interviewed the French journalist with whom he concocted this hoax. The journalist gave the solution to the "blue apples" cryptic messages and expressed his amusement at the havoc this joke has caused. Sorry folks, it ain't true, it's made up. As made up as Pierre's lineage. However don't let it stop you reading it, it's a cracking good read. And the sources the authors used on the biblical bits are still valid. If you want the lowdown on what early Christianity was really like, Prof Robert Eisenman, Hugh Schonfield and Dr Barbara Thiiering make interesting reading and haven't to my knowledge been disproved yet.
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