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.

“Do good in Thy favour unto Zion; build Thou the walls of Jerusalem ... on the outside of the walls. The walls along this section are built over the ruins of the walls from Crusader times ...

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 ...