"The parchment, also known as the Chinon Chart, was 'misplaced' in the Vatican archives until 2001, when Frale stumbled across it.
"'The parchment was catalogued incorrectly at some point in history. At first I couldn't believe my eyes. I was incredulous,' she said.
"'This was the document that a lot of historians were looking for,' the 37-year-old scholar said."
Philip Pullella of Reuters reports the publication by the Vatican of documents from the 1300s exonerating the Knights Templar of heresy.
Friday, October 12, 2007
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