Wall murals portraying Crusader knights and symbols of ... who painted over the designs with black paint. The count returned to Jerusalem to restore his murals, but died in the hospital in 1925 ...

Gorgeous wall paintings recounting the Crusader history of Jerusalem were recently exposed when the sisters ... revealed drawings that were concealed beneath modern plaster and paint. Israel ...

Pictured: A 19th-century painting of the 1177 Battle of Montgisard ... a romanticized version of the Christians’ First Crusade into Jerusalem. Public domain via Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

Some of these sites also have military significance, such as the Crusader graffiti carved into the basement walls of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. “In Jerusalem, it’s all military and it ...

A huge Crusader hospital in Jerusalem will soon be opened to the public after a decade-long reconstruction, the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced Aug. 5. Until about 10 years ago ...

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 ...

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 ...

a king of France and leader of the Seventh Crusade between A.D. 1248 and 1254. During World War I, however, the hospital came under the control of Turkish forces, who painted over the designs with ...