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US News and World Report Is Based Largely on Secrets of the Code: the Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind the Da Vinci Code www.ztcprep.com Discover the mysteries of the world’s most timeless book The Bible—Its origins are unknown, yet its teachings have resonated for thousands of years. Its stories are, as yet, unproven, yet millions believe them to be fact. The Bible’s message inspires many, while others reject it outright. In every generation, believers and skeptics alike have been enthralled by the mysteries of the Bible — and now U.S.News & World Report explores them in a new Special Collector’s Edition. Here are just a few of the stories you’ll find: • Secrets of the Scriptures. Who wrote the Bible? Who were the Prophets? • The Fight for History. In the Holy Land, archaeology itself is a battleground. Whose homeland is it? • Raisers of the Lost Ark. Two teams of explorers seek evidence of Noah’s flood ONLY • The Dead Sea Scrolls. The scandal behind their $ discovery 799 • Love and Leviticus. Debating the Bible’s stand PLUS S&H on homosexuality • And much more! Mysteries of the Bible provides the insightful writing, exquisite photos, and colorful illustrations that make it a must for your home library. Don’t miss this 88-page limited-run special edition! ORDER NOW AT www.usnews.com/specialwww.usnews.com/special www.ztcprep.com Secrets of the Da Vinci Code www.ztcprep.com 6 20 30 Secrets of the All About Mary History’s Da Vinci Code Greatest Coverup? CONTENTS Decoding the Da Vinci Saint … or Sinner? | 23 The Treasure of Nag Phenomenon | 7 There’s far more to Mary than Hammadi | 32 Dan Brown’s novel is not only the official penitent—and The so-called Gnostic Gospels a record bestseller; it has ig- prostitute—of church history. have cast new light on the nited a firestorm of discus- early days of Christianity. sion about religious history, The “Sacred sex, and the Catholic Church. Feminine” | 28 Christianity’s Untidy Long overlooked, the links be- Start | 39 The Man Behind the tween Christianity and an- Mystery | 16 cient goddesses and fertility The Church Dan Brown himself is one big cults are now being explored. Triumphant | 42 riddle. And he likes it like that. Did the early Church fathers suppress the opposition? Secrets of the Code Much of this special Collector’s Edition of U.S. News & World Report is excerpted from the bestselling book SECRETS OF THE CODE: THE UNAUTHORIZED GUIDE TO THE MYSTERIES BEHIND THE DA VINCI CODE. Edited by Dan Burstein, Secrets of The Code explores, through the eyes and opinions of the experts—archaeologists, theologians, art historians, philosophers, and scientists—the major themes and questions raised in Dan Brown’s novel, from who was Mary Magdalene to whether Leonardo encrypted secret messages in his art. Burstein also wrote several of the articles that appear here, including introductions to various chapters. The editors would like to thank him and Arne de Keijzer, the book’s managing editor, for their help and cooperation in producing this project. From Secrets of the Code: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code, edited by Dan Burstein and published by Client Distribution Services, Inc. Copyright © 2004 by Squibnocket Partners LLC. COVER: LEONARDO DA VINCI, THE LAST SUPPER. ALINARI / ART RESOURCE. TITLE PAGE: LEONARDO DA VINCI, PORTRAIT OF A BEARDED MAN, www.ztcprep.com POSSIBLY A SELF-PORTRAIT, BIBLIOTECA REALE, TURIN, ITALY / BRIDGEMAN ART LIBRARY. GRAPHIC (PAGES 4-5): LASZLO KUBINYI FOR USN&WR 48 60 75 82 Leonardo The Netherworld The Origin Resources and His Secrets of Conspiracies of the Hoax A Feast for All Eyes | 51 Knights of Mystery | 63 The Da Vinci Con | 76 In the Footsteps of Leonardo da Vinci hovers Lovers of conspiracies will de- The ever-rising tide of sales The Da Vinci Code | 82 over The Da Vinci Code from light in the murky Priory of of the Code has lifted some Our armchair guide to the hot the first moment in the Lou- Sion and the equally mysteri- pretty odd boats, and none spots in the novel, from the vre to the last. Did he inte- ous Knights Templar, a curi- odder than the dodgy yet blood-soaked Louvre and grate a secret coded message ous body of medieval soldier- magisterial Holy Blood, Holy looming Saint-Suplice to into The Last Supper? And monks of sinister reputation Grail, a 1980s bestseller that Scotland’s Rosslyn why is Mona Lisa smiling? who—reputedly—were the underlies the novel. Chapel. Don’t leave home guardians of a great secret. without it. The Last Supper | 52 The French Confection | 78 Could it really be Mary Mag- The Enigma Beginning in the 1950s, a If You Loved dalene sitting next to Jesus? of Opus Dei | 68 small group of men with neo- the Novel … | 85 A close look at the disputed The most controversial group chivalric and nationalist lean- What do you read next? Our painting. in the Catholic Church today, ings was able to perpetrate suggestions of books, it is seen by some as a cult- what is almost certainly a movies, and websites for fur- Inside the Mind like organization—and by oth- marvelously intricate hoax— ther exploration. of a Genius | 56 ers as doing God’s work. the Priory of Sion. From age 30 on, Leonardo Dan Brown’s produced more than 5,000 The Riddles Have It | 70 Next Caper | 87 remarkable manuscript pages The Da Vinci Code is an artful For Robert Langdon, all clues of notes, ideas, and drawings. web of mysterious codes and to his next adventure seem to secret symbols that must be be pointing in one direction: solved by Robert Langdon at Washington, D.C., home of breakneck speed—or else. many Masonic mysteries. FROM LEFT: AKG; DAGLI ORTI—GALLERIA SABAUDA TURIN / THE ART ARCHIVE; GIRAUDON / ART RESOURCE; USN&WR SPECIAL EDITION 3 www.ztcprep.comALINARI / ART RESOURCE (2); ANTONIO RIBEIRO—GAMMA; STEFANO DE LUIGI—CONTRASTO / REDUX 16 At 10:46 Friday night, following orders from a myste- rious figure, Silas shoots curator Jacques Saunière in the Louvre Museum in Paris. Before dying, Saunière leaves a trail of coded messages in blood and black- light ink throughout the Grand Gallery of the Louvre. SATURDAY l1 12:32 AM Bezu Fache, head of Paris police, sum- mons Robert Langdon from the Ritz Hotel to the bizarre crime scene in the Louvre. l2 1:10 AM Sophie Neveu interrupts them. l3 1:13 AM Silas searches St. Sulpice for Grail keystone. 11 l4 1:47AM Secret message near the Mona Lisa, and a hidden key, reveal Saunière belonged to the Priory of Sion. l5 1:56 AM Neveu and Langdon sneak out of the Louvre, foiling police. l6 3:35 AM Neveu and Langdon remove the precious keystone from bank vault in Rue Haxo, Paris. l7 4:45 AM At his chateau in Villette (near 12 Versailles), Sir Leigh Teabing tells Neveu the Holy 13 Grail is Mary Magdalene, Jesus’s wife and successor. 14 l8 5:00 AM Silas knocks out Langdon in Sir Leigh's drawing room while attempting to steal the key- 15 stone for Opus Dei. l9 5:43 AM Neveu, Langdon, Sir Leigh, and his ser- vant, Rémy, tie up Silas and escape to England, unlocking keystone's cryptex en route. l10 6:30 AM Bezu Fache, in pursuit, misses them as they land in Kent, England. l11 7:40 AM Silas nearly steals the second cryptex at London's Temple Church. l12 8:20 AM Mysterious plotter who ordered Sauni- ère's murder hides in London’s Westminster Abbey. l13 8:25 AM Silas’s shootout with police at Opus Dei in London. l14 8:30 AM Langdon and Neveu hunt for clues in the abbey to the code that will open the second cryptex. l15 8:45 AM In the abbey’s Chapter House, Teabing admits to ordering Saunière’s murder, Langdon deciphers the keystone, and Bezu Fache arrests Teabing. l16 7:00 PM Neveu finds her true identity at Rosslyn Chapel—and the trail leads back to Paris. www.ztcprep.com Robert Langdon Sophie Neveu Jacques Saunière Sir Leigh Teabing Silas A professor of “religious A young, pretty The curator of the Not only is Sir Leigh a An albino monk and a symbology”—a field of cryptographer, Neveu Louvre, Saunière is also former “British Royal member of the Catholic study that exists only in becomes Langdon’s ally Grand Master of the Historian”—a title that group Opus Dei, Silas is Dan Brown's mind—Lang- in the search for the Priory of Sion. As the does not exist; he is the an orphan who is given don arrives in Paris to truth about the murder novel begins he is found give a lecture on pagan of Saunière, her dead—naked, and spread- world's most renowned orders from an individ- symbolism. estranged grandfather. eagled on the floor of living expert on the ual known as “The Langdon, who was first Sofia, in Greek, the Grand Gallery—with a Holy Grail. His hench- Teacher” to murder introduced in Brown's means wisdom. Her last pentacle scrawled in man is a manservant Saunière. He is known earlier novel, Angels & name, Neveu, is a blood on his torso. named Rémy. for his deft practice Demons, is his tribute to homonym of the French His name is derived In creating the enig- of corporal mortifica- John Langdon, author of word nouveau, or new. from that of a French matic Teabing, Dan tion, which involves at- Wordplay: Ambigrams Combined, the full name priest, Abbé Bérenger and Reflections on the adds up to “New Saunière, who, according Brown was paying trib- taching a spiked chain Art of Ambigrams, one of Wisdom.” At the center to legend, discovered ute to the conspiracy called a cilice to his Brown's favorite books.
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