Is The Da Vinci Code really accurate when it comes to the location of Mary Magdalin's bones?

Question

I was really curious after I watched the movie, as to whether or not the bones of Mary Magdalin are actually located in under the glass pyramid. Did Dan Brown just add this detail himself, or did he find evidence of this from research? I would greatly appreciate any response to this question - I am currently doing research on philosiphy and religion. Thanks so much for your time, please respond!! :)

Answer 1

It's fiction. Don't you think this stuff would be common knowledge if it were true? I mean how would Dan Brown know all this stuff and the rest of the world not?

Answer 2

I give below my opinion I wrote to some news papers about Da Vinci Code:

The world is seriously concerned and the Christian World (especially the Roman Catholic Church) is hurt through a book of an individual that contains his own manipulations. That too on a subject of more than two thousand years old with no adequate evidence for the views he has.

Dan Brown is nothing but a cunning writer where he found a safe base to start his game. The base from where he started his book is already well known to the whole world and so he had no doubt that his book would a best seller. His mind is nothing better than that of a crazy street boy who tries to spoil or tarnish a sculpture or a statue or a painting that was admired by rest of the world. He succeeded in doing it. The act can be compared with that of the Talibans who destroyed the Budha’s statue. Here, I am not comparing their aims.

Now to the Christian world and the Roman Catholic Church I have a question. If your God is powerful, why don’t you leave the matter to Him to handle? Is not your almighty God powerful enough to handle a Dan Brown, if his views are against Him?

Dan Brown, Salman Rushdie, Kazantzakkis etc.are all such writers who had another indirect aim in their minds that fame is easy when they try to tarnish a famous matter. Keeping aside their literary talents there is nothing worth admiring. But they succeeded and the media and whole world are being fooled. Moreover, when one religion is insulted the rest rejoice. This is another key point of their success.

Answer 3

No, the Da Vinci Code is wrong about this. The bones are actually in an airtight porcelain box hidden under the Taj Mahal. Dan Brown just didn't know where they were and had to make up the fact, just as he did with many other of his facts. My new novel, The Neanderthal Christ, will clear up all the problems.

Answer 4

The Da Vinci Code shouldn't be your source for any kind of scholarly research - experts point out that it's absoluely riddled with errors, some quite subtle and others glaringly obvious. Dan Brown was quite liberal with his sensationalism of the facts.

And considering that the Church went centuries without knowing where Saint Peter's bones were buried, anyone claiming to know the location of Mary Magdalene's bones had better show some very good proof, it would seem to me.

Answer 5

Let me explain this to you really quick: no. The Da Vinci Code was a book which espoused a wild conspiracy theory that not many people actually believe. But that detail above all else is ridiculous to the point of absurdity. I'm sitting here wondering if you actually believed that her remains might be beneath that pyramid. No evidence for it whatsoever. It was just a fun thing to put in the book.

Answer 6

I can not answer yes or no for certain. Personally, I believe that it is very unlikely. In truth, most of the information in the Da Vinci Code is wrong. The first being the title as nobody would call Leonarda Da Vinci simply Da Vinci if they were at all learned as it simple means "Of Vinci". Anyway, it is very unlikely that they are Mary's real bones as she would very likely not have been preserved well enough for her bones to survive 2000 years.

Answer 7

The book and movie are fiction. Even the "facts" on the fact page have been thoroughly debunked.

Don't know about Magdalin's bones.

Go to http://www.catholic.com/library/cracking_da_vinci_code.asp

Found this cool article in the Catholic Encyclopedia: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09761a.htm
....The Greek Church maintains that the saint retired to Ephesus with the Blessed Virgin and there died, that her relics were transferred to Constantinople in 886 and are there preserved. Gregory of Tours (De miraculis, I, xxx) supports the statement that she went to Ephesus. However, according to a French tradition (see SAINT LAZARUS OF BETHANY), Mary, Lazarus, and some companions came to Marseilles and converted the whole of Provence. Magdalen is said to have retired to a hill, La Sainte-Baume, near by, where she gave herself up to a life of penance for thirty years.....

Answer 8

its just a book.....if it was real and her bones were really there dont u think that englands gov't wont be makin millions of $ every year cuz i bet a lot of people would pay to go and see Marry Magdalin's bones. if it was for real i think england would be the richest country in the world considering that there are more christains in this world then any other religion....

Answer 9

The Da Vinci Code makes the declare that Jesus had a relations, that his bloodline keeps to this present day and his descendants are secure by using a sacred and secret team. there is little to no reference that i visit keep in mind to his second Coming. i imagine Nostradamus beat Dan Brown to that one.

Answer 10

Short Realistic Answer: No, it isn't accurate.

Long and Mystical Answer: Your bones are Mary Magdalen's bones, your skin is her skin, your eyes are her eyes and you see and feel and hear for her. You are Mary Magdalene and Jesus is your Beloved. This is the real truth of the scriptures. Realize that you are Divine.