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The story that the tomb of Vlad the Impaler (thought to be the inspiration for the fictional character Dracula) is spreading pretty quickly, as you'd expect.
Here's one version of it, naturally it's been scraped'n'spread across every corner of teh internets in a few days.
Interesting stuff, at least until you drill into the story a bit. Turkish history always had it that his head was taken to Constantinople, Romanian legend has always had it that some/all of him was interred at Snagov in Romania. A 1933 excavation demonstrated nothing of Vlad III was buried there, unless he was a horse. The place still seems fairly popular on Trip Advisor though
That leaves his body (headless or otherwise) somewhere in play.
His daughter did indeed join the allied Italian nobility and this grave find is definitely in the same part of the Piazza as those of her and her husband. That lends some credibility so far, except for a couple of things.
The researchers claim that the Dragon is the sign of Dracula (sort of true in reverse-engineering) and that the Thebes symbology means Tepes.
Dracul means "dragon", which is the symbol of the chivalric Order of the Dragon which had quite a few very rich members all across Europe. "Dracula" was only attributed to Vlad III by Stoker (through the Van Helsing character) much later on, it's not even a title that's specific to Vlad's family let alone him.
And Tepes? Not related to Thebes at all, it means "Impaler" (no explanation needed, I'm sure ) and was a common title for Vlad III after his death.
To my mind this is the tomb of a member of the Order of the Dragon (or a senior figure in the 'court' of such a member) who also had an association with Thebes, certainly not impossible when you look at the range, wealth and power centers during the Byzantine era.
The coincidence of Vlad's daughter's grave also being in that Piazza isn't such a great one when you look at the family she married into (and their connections) but one can see how it adds to a great story. A great story that I don't think is true.
It WILL be true in about 4 days though, cus teh internets
Here's one version of it, naturally it's been scraped'n'spread across every corner of teh internets in a few days.
Interesting stuff, at least until you drill into the story a bit. Turkish history always had it that his head was taken to Constantinople, Romanian legend has always had it that some/all of him was interred at Snagov in Romania. A 1933 excavation demonstrated nothing of Vlad III was buried there, unless he was a horse. The place still seems fairly popular on Trip Advisor though
That leaves his body (headless or otherwise) somewhere in play.
His daughter did indeed join the allied Italian nobility and this grave find is definitely in the same part of the Piazza as those of her and her husband. That lends some credibility so far, except for a couple of things.
The researchers claim that the Dragon is the sign of Dracula (sort of true in reverse-engineering) and that the Thebes symbology means Tepes.
Dracul means "dragon", which is the symbol of the chivalric Order of the Dragon which had quite a few very rich members all across Europe. "Dracula" was only attributed to Vlad III by Stoker (through the Van Helsing character) much later on, it's not even a title that's specific to Vlad's family let alone him.
And Tepes? Not related to Thebes at all, it means "Impaler" (no explanation needed, I'm sure
) and was a common title for Vlad III after his death.To my mind this is the tomb of a member of the Order of the Dragon (or a senior figure in the 'court' of such a member) who also had an association with Thebes, certainly not impossible when you look at the range, wealth and power centers during the Byzantine era.
The coincidence of Vlad's daughter's grave also being in that Piazza isn't such a great one when you look at the family she married into (and their connections) but one can see how it adds to a great story. A great story that I don't think is true.
It WILL be true in about 4 days though, cus teh internets
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