Numerous photographs, maps, charts, and drawings accompany ... the early Islamic Jerusalem around 800 CE, and finally the Jerusalem of the Crusades. On September 30, 1187, Saladin, leading his ...

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 ...

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 ...

are in fact important material evidence of the arrival of the armies of the First Crusade in 1099 in southern Syria/Palestine and the territorial expansion of the newly established Kingdom of ...