Dracula’s Cellar Found
Vlad the Impaler
Archaeologists believe to have discovered a cellar owned by the Wallachian Duke Vlad III, commonly known by the name of “Dracula.” The cellar was discovered in the university town of Pecs in southern Hungary.
According to reports, Tomas Fedeles, tutor of medieval and early modern history at the University of Pecs pointed out that his research showed that Vlad III or Vlad Dracula lived in a two-story house located today in the city’s central square.
Fedeles found a document containing a detailed description of the house and its owners, among which the name “Drakulya” appears. The researcher believes that the cellar most likely belonged to “Dracula.”
A local archaeologist, Oliver Gabor, said that the cellar was one of the most impressive medieval cellars found to date and considers that further excavation could reveal important information.
Archaeologists working on the newly discovered cellar
Cellar to be filled
The recently discovered cellar believed by researchers to have belonged to Vlad III Tepes will be closed. Authorities plan to fill in the site.
The decision comes after Zoltan Karpati, the official archaeologist of the Cultural Heritage Protection Service said that “the excavations did not find items that might point to an individual owner”, ANI writes.
Karpati disagrees with the position of the house indicated by the medieval document researched by Tomas Fedeles, saying, however, that it is possible that the cellar could have belonged to the “Dracula House.”
If the decision of the Cultural Heritage Protection Service is final, there will be no further scientific research on the matter and the cellar will be filled.
Vlad the Impaler
Vlad III “Tepes”(the impaler in Romanian) was born in 1431 in Transylvania as the second son of Vlad Dracul, a member of the Order of the Dragon, a secret society founded by Sigismund and queen Barbara of Celje in a order to unite wealthy individuals and high ranking society members in the fight against the Ottoman Empire. At a fragile age, Vlad was also introduced to the Order.
He spent most of his life in exile in Moldova and Hungary. However, in 1456 he became Voivod (Duke) of Wallachia, now the southern part of Romania, and remained loyal to the Order initiating a tireless campaign against the Ottomans. In 1461, Vlad campaigned south of the Danube and unleashed havoc in the region between Serbia and the Black Sea. Vlad later said: “I have killed men and women, old and young… 23,884 Turks and Bulgarians without counting those whom we burned alive in their homes or whose heads were not chopped off by our soldiers.”
During his reign he acquired the reputation of a cruel and bloodthirsty ruler. His favorite method of execution was by impalement. Vlad tried to eliminate all those who opposed him.
Popularity
Vlad III Tepes became popular after Irish writer Bram Stoker published his novel Dracula. Inspired by European folklore and vampire stories, Stoker creates a fictional character based on the reputation of Vlad. The Impaler was portrayed as the vampire Prince of Transylvania.
In reality, Vlad Tepes was only born in Sighisoara, Transylvania, and became the ruler of Wallachia, south of the Carpathians. The time Vlad spent in his adult life in Transylvania was brief and documented by the raids against the Danesti clan who posed a constant threat to his rule.
Vlad spent more than 10 years in captivity in Hungary, imprisoned by Matthias Corvinus. The Wallachian Voivod was assassinated in late 1476 and believed to have been buried at the Snagov Abbey. However, recent examinations of Vlad’s tomb have discovered only a few horse bones dating from the neolithic age.
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I thought he was from romaina.
Now, why do they plan to-or probably already did-fill up the cellar? This only leads some-like me-to think that maybe they really found it! This man really did exist and historians agree, but something else about his past is of more interest, to me. He became a member of the ‘Order of the Dragon,’as was his family.
Now I read this and connect this to what I’ve learned about all ancient societies. If you go back far enough, and pick any culture on any continent, you will find legends of the gods, and of them being ‘dragon like.’ You will also find that many secret societies, if not all of them, originated from Ancient Sumeria. The legends/writings of Sumeria tell of a ‘dragon like’ race that ascended from the heavens. The writings further with details of them creating a hybrid race and then selecting offspring for secret schools, in preparation for rule. They and their hybrid race have intellectual advantages and certain disadvantages. Disadvantages I say, because legends also describe this race having a craving for human flesh and BLOOD, and for being incredibly ruthless in their methods of human management. So here is the connection, in my opinion. Dracula obviously rebelled in the only way he knew how, the way he was taught. Get it!
All throughout history there have been twisted, power hungry men bringing untold death and destruction. Genghis Khan, Hitlar, Duke Vlad III, Saddam Hussein and the list goes on. I believe it’s the way historians paint these
malcontents that brings about intrigue. Take for instance the horse bones
in Vlad’s tomb. Common sense would dictate that a.) the family was afraid
his body would be desecrated thus removed it to be buried elsewhere (a scene
from ‘Braveheart’ comes to mind) or 2.) someone was upset he was buried on
sacred land/soil and did remove Vlad from his burial spot.
I say fill in the cellar and don’t give him another thought except that his
death should have come earlier than later.
That guy in the painting sure seems to be wearing a crown of pearls to me. I don’t know what to make of that, but obviously somebody very rich. I sure hope somebody finds that crown of pearls and that it actually existed long ago. That would be a find! A find and a half! Well who knows, maybe those weren’t real pearls. Certainly seems to me to be a flambouyant way of dress either way. Like they knew how to “put on the dog” back then!
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It still amazes me that people still see him as this horrible person. If you think that he was you need to do more research. He was a savior to the people of Romania and to this day is still seen as a hero there. If it wasn’t for Vlad Romania would not be the country that it is today.
here’s a lil fact “dracula” means son of the dragon
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I´m again and again surprised, that people believe all this lies about Prince Vlad and don´t see or want to see the background!
1. Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary was pained by big jealusy, becouse his father wished to have a son like Vlad, strong, high intelligence
2. Matthias Corvinus had to avoid coming out the truth: he gave all the money given by church to Vlad to fight the Ottomans for other things: the Stephan-Crown, his search for a wife and marriage, his festivals. He needed a reason to give this big ammount of money (90000 gold dukats) not to Vlad and spreaded lies about him
3. Matthias wanted to be more, than a king, he wanted to be Emperor of Europe.
He spreaded lies about Frederik III. to kick him from the throne but than he saw: Prince Vlad was the new favorite! And so he had much letters with the Printers of Nurnberg (eg. Ambrosius de olde Huber) and secretly gave the order, to print flyers with lies about prince Vlad. Hundreds were printed, given to the church, to all with influence….
There were a lot on the side of Matthias who had profit from that.
He faked letters of Vlad to proof, he was a lier who made monkey business and wanted to sell hungary and romania to the sultan. Lies!!!
And when danger came, Matthias was sorry and gave all back to Prince Vlad… but you don´t read it anywhere! Why??? Are lies better than the truth? Yes: you can earn money with them, till now, sixhundred years later. That´s the real curse!
But now more is known and now, after nearly 600 years: please end these lies which made a vampire out of this intelligent, hnourable, great man!!!