The film Kingdom of Heaven made Saladin and Baldwin the Leper King famous to the moviegoing public. But what's the true history behind the movie? We'll find out today! In 1176, Baldwin IV, the Leper ...

The pleasures and burdens of sovereignty have freed most Israelis, outside of the hard ... Israel is routinely compared to the Crusader state that ruled Jerusalem for just under 100 years.

Researchers have unearthed a Crusader-era altar in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher in a serendipitous discovery that sounds straight out of an Indiana Jones plot. The find, announced by ...

A stone quarry outside the walls of Jerusalem, later abandoned and converted ... was incorporated into the Holy Sepulcher during the Crusader period. It is accessed by a staircase to the right ...

Of that excellent series telling the stories of the nations, this on "The Crusades" makes the forty ... "The Story of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem." View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

The cross first appeared in the years before Pope Blessed Urban II called for the First Crusade (1096-1099) to set off to recapture Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim control. Called at times ...

Nearly a thousand years ago, European Christians embarked on what became known as the First Crusade: an unprecedented, massive military campaign to take Jerusalem from Muslims and claim the holy ...