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 .
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.
The "long night" at Linderhof Castle, with illuminations, guided tours and chamber concerts remembered the 163rd birthday of the monarch. (Johannes Simon/Getty Images)
