THE INK AND BLOOD EXHIBITION is moving to Daytona Beach, Florida, where they hope to pick up some business from the Da Vinci Code movie.

Ancient mysteries of 'Ink & Blood'
An exhibition probes Bible history and 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ken Ma | [Orlando] Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted May 23, 2006

DAYTONA BEACH -- William Noah didn't set out to debunk the The Da Vinci Code.

The 45-year-old pulmonary physician from Tennessee wanted to put together an exhibition that would tell the story behind the story of the Bible -- how its history can be used to teach the history of much of Western civilization.

Along the way, though, there was no escaping Dan Brown's best-selling book, which hit store shelves the same year Noah's exhibition first opened in Murfreesboro, Tenn.

Plagued by questions about the novel that claims Jesus and Mary Magdalene were man and wife, the Rollins College graduate added a section to his traveling exhibition -- which opens Friday in Daytona Beach -- to set the historical record straight.

"It's just a fiction story like Gone With the Wind," Noah said of the book, which has been turned into a box-office smash.

Officials with Daytona Beach's Museum of Arts and Sciences hope Noah's "Ink & Blood: Dead Sea Scrolls to the English Bible" can boost museum attendance by drawing on the interest in the movie, which made $77 million in the U.S. during its debut this weekend.

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If you're thinking of going, remember that their Dead Sea Scrolls look like burnt cornflakes and that the Marzeah Papyrus may be a forgery.