However, the deposition of a large share of these so-called ‘Fatimid hoards,’ 15 out of the 29, are in fact important material evidence of the arrival of the armies of the First Crusade in 1099 in ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a collection of unique, centuries-old inscriptions in a place believed to be the site of the ...

Many people responded to the Pope's wishes by joining the Crusades - showing this by cutting out red crosses and sewing them onto their tunics. The loss of Jerusalem was a terrible blow to the ...

and finally the Jerusalem of the Crusades. On September 30, 1187, Saladin, leading his Muslim army, broke into Jerusalem, which had been ruled by the Christians for nearly a century, and soon ...

At no time, perhaps, since the Crusades has so much interest been felt in Jerusalem and the Holy Land as at present, when, as we know, important discoveries are being made, which must confirm ...

Scientists have documented and analyzed 30 inscriptions and nine images marked onto the walls of the Last Supper Room in ...

The keys of Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the operation of its doors have been entrusted to two Muslim families for centuries ...