Though their order was dissolved more than 700 years ago, the Knights Templar have continued to cast a spell over the world. Terrorists and drug cartels evoke them. Dan Brown’s mega-bestseller The Da Vinci Code was partly inspired by one of the most famous Templar legends—that the Templars were the guardians of the Holy Grail. [Find out what the Templars had to do with Friday the 13th.]
Monthly Archives: September 2017
My interview with Jim Hawkins of BBC Radio Shropshire in which I talked about my childhood, connections to this part of the world, my travelling with National Geographic and lots more.