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After two years of excavations, researchers have discovered a remarkable find: the tomb of a medieval knight. And judging ...
Medieval ceramic vessel found in Jerusalem offers potential evidence of Crusader knights using hand grenades, study finds.
Archaeologists have discovered a Gothic hall at a medieval Crusader fortress in today’s northern Israel. The ceremonial hall found in Galilee’s Montfort Castle offers a fascinating glim… ...
Sylwia Kurzyńska described the find as "one of the most important archaeological discoveries in Poland in recent years" and ...
As a current college student majoring in History, I recently took a course on the European medieval Crusades and conquests and learned that the western Christian knights first launched the ...
The well-preserved skeleton was buried beneath a rare limestone tombstone, hinting that the individual was of high status in medieval Gdańsk society.
If we reject the image of the medieval knight because he represents the violence of the Crusades, then we should reject the image of the American revolutionary era Patriot soldier (Holy Cross’s ...
Last year, amazing medieval jewelry was found during the excavation of a Crusader castle on Tittora Hill in the town of Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut. Fallen masonry blocks at Montfort Castle.
The Crusader Bible, on loan from the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, ... its bright images brimming with medieval castles and battling knights in armor. ...
The Crusades (1095 – 1291) was a series of wars between armies of knights from Christian Europe and Muslim forces to secure control of the Holy Land, most significantly Jerusalem, considered ...
"An obvious omission, I think, was the knight," he says. "You think of knights in shining armour when you think of medieval times, so we put them in." ...