North Of 49

Davinci Code: A nit-pick

These maybe considered just nit - picks, but how can a man
who writes a book, then claims that all of the historical
information and ritual information is true make these mistakes:

The Pyramid in the Louvre (The Louvre is a Museum in Paris):
"constructed of exactly 666 panes of glass."

Whooops, according to the web site of the Louvre:

"It is made up of nearly eight hundred diamond- and triangle-
shaped glass panes especially designed by Saint-Gobain to offer
an ideal transparency."

See: Louvre Link

In the book, Brown also asserts that the Greeks based their
Olympic games on an eight-year cycle as a tribute to the planet
Venus, which in those days represented a goddess.

Ummm to quote Homer (Simpson) Doh!

The truth is that the Olympics were held in honour of the
Greek god Zeus. And ran in a four - year cycle, not one
of eight years......

See: Games
And: Here
Also: Here at The Archaeological Institute Of America

Notice that nowhere in the well known history of the Olympics
is it mentioned that they were held in honour of Venus?
Do we see a problem here?

More to come later.

posted by North Of 49 @ 11:01 AM