Virginia Winters courtesy of Israel Nature and Parks Authority Archaeologists have discovered an 11th century moat just outside Jerusalem ... battle for Jerusalem between Crusader armies and ...

Although Jerusalem’s southern defenses held ... That’s a good match for the timing of the First Crusade. Not far outside the wall, Gibson and his colleagues found the buried ruins of a ...

JERUSALEM — Exactly 920 years after Jerusalem fell in the First Crusade, archaeologists say ... they cut the moat. Outside the city, everybody runs in to take refuge inside.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

📜 History of Saladin & the 3rd Crusade: Defending Jerusalem - And so we come to the negotiations between Saladin and Richard the Lionheart, where some of the best-known stories of the Crusades ...