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Chapter 37

           LangdonhadlecturedoftenenoughontheKnightsTemplartoknowthatalmosteveryoneonearthhadheardofthem,atleastabstractedly.Foracademics,theTemplars’historywasaprecariousworldwherefact,lore,andmisinformationhadbecomesointertwinedthatextractingapristinetruthwasalmostimpossible.Nowadays,LangdonhesitatedeventomentiontheKnightsTemplarwhilelecturingbecauseitinvariablyledtoabarrageofconvolutedinquiriesintoassortedconspiracytheories.

           Sophiealreadylookedtroubled.«You’resayingtheKnightsTemplarwerefoundedbythePrioryofSiontoretrieveacollectionofsecretdocuments?IthoughttheTemplarswerecreatedtoprotecttheHolyLand.»

           «Acommonmisconception.TheideaofprotectionofpilgrimswastheguiseunderwhichtheTemplarsrantheirmission.TheirtruegoalintheHolyLandwastoretrievethedocumentsfrombeneaththeruinsofthetemple.»

           «Anddidtheyfindthem?»

           Langdongrinned.«Nobodyknowsforsure,buttheonethingonwhichallacademicsagreeisthis:TheKnightsdiscoveredsomethingdownthereintheruins…somethingthatmadethemwealthyandpowerfulbeyondanyone’swildestimagination.»

           LangdonquicklygaveSophiethestandardacademicsketchoftheacceptedKnightsTemplarhistory,explaininghowtheKnightswereintheHolyLandduringtheSecondCrusadeandtoldKingBaldwinIIthattheyweretheretoprotectChristianpilgrimsontheroadways.

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