Dusky streams of sunbeams were playing into that room, and lighting up poor harry's gallery of dancing girls and opera nymphs with flickering illuminations .
The "long night" at Linderhof Castle, with illuminations, guided tours and chamber concerts remembered the 163rd birthday of the monarch. (Johannes Simon/Getty Images)
During a second expedition in 2008 the team discovered several 600-year-old human skeletons and recovered reams of precious manuscripts, some with small paintings known as illuminations.
