Less than a year after the Russian Empire entered World War I, a band of Georgian men came down from the Caucasus Mountains. Dressed in chain armor and wielding shields and broadswords, they rode ...

and numerous other grave goods likely dating to the country’s 12th-century Crusader Era. The unnamed man was having geothermal pipes installed on his land in the town of Salo, which required ...

For centuries, the mingled, charred bones of at least 25 soldiers lay buried in two mass graves near the ruins of the Castle of St. Louis, a 12th- to 13th-century ... and knights in the Crusader ...

Standing on the main road from the capital Damscus to the sea, Krak des Chevaliers was built in the 12th century to house the crusader order the Knights Hospitallers. In 1271 it was retaken by ...

Pictured: A 19th-century painting of the 1177 Battle of ... is a beautiful and rare find and evidently belonged to a Crusader knight.” The news rocketed around the world, with dozens of outlets ...

When the Muslim diplomat Usama ibn Munqidh visited Jerusalem in the early 12th century ... the 7th-century showdowns between Byzantium, the Persian empire and Islam to the later Crusades of ...

One of these is the crusader fortress in Acre, built and inhabited by the Knights Templar at the turn of the 12th century. At the time it was built, the city was one of the main ports of Israel ...

literate tale set during the late 12th-century crusades (circa 1184) about a few men who try to make peace between Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land. They are prevented by fanatics on both ...

President Johnson declared his “war on poverty” last week with all of the martial fervor of a 12th century crusader. “On many historic occasions,” he told the Congress in a message ...