Dan Jones
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3,287 appearances
15 recordings
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first heard May 2026
last heard 8 Sep
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The Templars set up one of their great headquarters in this in this uh town and had tunnels that seem to have run from the Templar headquarters to the port.
I mean possibly so they could evade taxes, but probably just to give ease of access.
And you can still go down into these tunnels today.
I th off the top of my head they're a couple of hundred meters long.
Um and in themselves they aren't particularly spectacular.
They're tunnels, but they take you into this world, firstly, of the Templars in their real crusading historical setting, you know, in this time when that there was this coming together of religion and of military conquest and of trade and of all of these things sort of piled together in this in this really quite small bit of the Mediterranean, of the Eastern Mediterranean.
But just by w just by virtue of saying templar tunnels, it implies this sort of de
What the hell were they up to?
Um and that I found so fascinating when I was doing a lot of work on the Templars and still do now because uh it's an organization where people almost
I mean th they want the myth mythology to be the one and you you're in this position you're in this position as a historian when you when you start to say, Well, I don't think the Templars necessarily did hide the secret bloodline of Christ and uh and and take a load of treasure up to Scotland and the hide Shakespeare's real writings on Oak Island, you'd I feel you're really disappointing people by not playing along.
Well, I think that's the key.
If you just sort of put your foot down and say, No, absolute bollocks, don't be so stupid.
You you kind of drive people away.
Yes, it's about having this attitude of of
There's a reason why people are interested in the Templars.
And if if one approaches the subject by saying, Well, there's a perfectly good hospital, a fortress in Acker, I don't see why you're not as interested in that as the Templar Tunnels, in fact Well that happens to be true, but it's
Also, people are
Well, at various times in crusading history they they both get it quite literally in the neck.
There's a so it's after the Battle of Hateen in eleven eighty seven.
The Templars and the Hospitallers, because they're kind of the crack troops in the crusading army.
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