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Earlier
,
while
telling
Sophie
about
the
Knights
Templar
,
Langdon
had
realized
that
this
key
,
in
addition
to
having
the
Priory
seal
embossed
on
it
,
possessed
a
more
subtle
tie
to
the
Priory
of
Sion
.
The
equal
-
armed
cruciform
was
symbolic
of
balance
and
harmony
but
also
of
the
Knights
Templar
.
Everyone
had
seen
the
paintings
of
Knights
Templar
wearing
white
tunics
emblazoned
with
red
equal
-
armed
crosses
.
Granted
,
the
arms
of
the
Templar
cross
were
slightly
flared
at
the
ends
,
but
they
were
still
of
equal
length
.
A
square
cross
.
Just
like
the
one
on
this
key
.
Langdon
felt
his
imagination
starting
to
run
wild
as
he
fantasized
about
what
they
might
find
.
The
Holy
Grail
.
He
almost
laughed
out
loud
at
the
absurdity
of
it
.
The
Grail
was
believed
to
be
somewhere
in
England
,
buried
in
a
hidden
chamber
beneath
one
of
the
many
Templar
churches
,
where
it
had
been
hidden
since
at
least
1500
.
The
era
of
Grand
Master
Da
Vinci
.
The
Priory
,
in
order
to
keep
their
powerful
documents
safe
,
had
been
forced
to
move
them
many
times
in
the
early
centuries
.
Historians
now
suspected
as
many
as
six
different
Grail
relocations
since
its
arrival
in
Europe
from
Jerusalem
.
The
last
Grail
»
sighting
»
had
been
in
1447
when
numerous
eyewitnesses
described
a
fire
that
had
broken
out
and
almost
engulfed
the
documents
before
they
were
carried
to
safety
in
four
huge
chests
that
each
required
six
men
to
carry
.
After
that
,
nobody
claimed
to
see
the
Grail
ever
again
.
All
that
remained
were
occasional
whisperings
that
it
was
hidden
in
Great
Britain
,
the
land
of
King
Arthur
and
the
Knights
of
the
Round
Table
.
Wherever
it
was
,
two
important
facts
remained
:
Leonardo
knew
where
the
Grail
resided
during
his
lifetime
.
That
hiding
place
had
probably
not
changed
to
this
day
.
For
this
reason
,
Grail
enthusiasts
still
pored
over
Da
Vinci
’
s
art
and
diaries
in
hopes
of
unearthing
a
hidden
clue
as
to
the
Grail
’
s
current
location
.
Some
claimed
the
mountainous
backdrop
in
Madonnaof
the
Rocks
matched
the
topography
of
a
series
of
cave
-
ridden
hills
in
Scotland
.
Others
insisted
that
the
suspicious
placement
of
disciples
in
The
Last
Supper
was
some
kind
of
code
.
Still
others
claimed
that
X
rays
of
the
Mona
Lisa
revealed
she
originally
had
been
painted
wearing
a
lapis
lazuli
pendant
of
Isis
–
a
detail
Da
Vinci
purportedly
later
decided
to
paint
over
.
Langdon
had
never
seen
any
evidence
of
the
pendant
,
nor
could
he
imagine
how
it
could
possibly
reveal
the
Holy
Grail
,
and
yet
Grail
aficionados
still
discussed
it
ad
nauseum
on
Internet
bulletin
boards
and
worldwide
-
web
chat
rooms
.
Everyone
loves
a
conspiracy
.
And
the
conspiracies
kept
coming
.
Most
recently
,
of
course
,
had
been
the
earthshaking
discovery
that
Da
Vinci
’
s
famed
Adoration
of
the
Magi
was
hiding
a
dark
secret
beneath
its
layers
of
paint
.
Italian
art
diagnostician
Maurizio
Seracini
had
unveiled
the
unsettling
truth
,
which
the
New
York
Times
Magazine
carried
prominently
in
a
story
titled
»
The
Leonardo
Cover
-
Up
.
»
Seracini
had
revealed
beyond
any
doubt
that
while
the
Adoration
’
s
gray
-
green
sketched
underdrawing
was
indeed
Da
Vinci
’
s
work
,
the
painting
itself
was
not
.
The
truth
was
that
some
anonymous
painter
had
filled
in
Da
Vinci
’
s
sketch
like
a
paint
-
by
-
numbers
years
after
Da
Vinci
’
s
death
.
Far
more
troubling
,
however
,
was
what
lay
beneath
the
impostor
’
s
paint
.
Photographs
taken
with
infrared
reflectography
and
X
ray
suggested
that
this
rogue
painter
,
while
filling
in
Da
Vinci
’
s
sketched
study
,
had
made
suspicious
departures
from
the
underdrawing
…
as
if
to
subvert
Da
Vinci
’
s
true
intention
.
Whatever
the
true
nature
of
the
underdrawing
,
it
had
yet
to
be
made
public
.
Even
so
,
embarrassed
officials
at
Florence
’
s
Uffizi
Gallery
immediately
banished
the
painting
to
a
warehouse
across
the
street
.
Visitors
at
the
gallery
’
s
Leonardo
Room
now
found
a
misleading
and
unapologetic
plaque
where
the
Adoration
once
hung
.
