Ancient Inscriptions Reveal Count Dracula's Burial Place

A tomb in Italy has a strange inscription that has led historians to believe that this is the real burial place of the world's most famous vampire Count.

Researchers say the tomb in the Turbolo Chapel of the Santa Maria la Nova church complex in Italy could be the burial place of Vlad III (Vlad Tepes), Prince of Wallachia. He is also known as Vlad the Impaler or Dracula. Photo: Getty Images.

Vlad III is widely known for being the inspiration for writer Bram Stoker to write the world- famous novel Dracula in 1897. Photo: Corbis via Getty Images.

According to some records, Vlad III was a 15th-century Romanian ruler. He was nicknamed the Impaler because of his brutal torture of his enemies, including impaling them on stakes. Photo: Getty Images.

Although it is believed that Vlad III was beheaded in 1476, the location of his grave has been a great mystery for many years. Photo: Getty Images.

After more than a decade of research, researchers have deciphered the mysterious Latin-like inscription on the tomb and discovered two keywords: "Blad" understood as "Vlad" and "Balkan" - the area that Vlad III once ruled. Photo: Getty Images.

A marble tomb in Naples contains the helmet of a knight wearing a dragon's head, a symbol associated with the Order of the Dragon, a medieval secret society to which Vlad III belonged. Photo: outfit4events.com.

On either side of the tomb are two sphinx-like statues that experts believe could represent the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes or be a reference to "Tepes" - Vlad III's Romanian nickname meaning "the Impaler". Photo: Public Domain.

The team began studying the tomb in 2014 after learning of a theory that Vlad's daughter Maria Balsa smuggled her father's remains out of Romania after his death. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)/Pittalà et al./American Chemical Society.

Historical records show that Maria Balsa was married to a member of the powerful Ferrilo family of Naples, leading researchers to believe that Vlad III may have been buried in what is now Italy. Photo: BoyCharioteer.

Maria buried her father - Vlad III in the church where she and her husband were also buried. Photo: medium.com.

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