The First Crusade began in 1095 with an appeal from the Byzantine Empire and a sermon by Pope Urban II that ignited one of the most extraordinary campaigns of the Middle Ages. What followed was a four ...

Ask pretty much anyone – whether terrorists, politicians (of all camps), dinner party guests, or religious leaders – and the one thing that they will say with confidence about the Crusades is that ...

Shimon Gibson, an archaeologist working in Jerusalem as a professor of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, points out the ruins of a road from the Byzantine era that ran through the heart ...

The crusades – the long series of wars fought between 1096 and 1492 under the direction of medieval popes against a wide ...

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte-led archaeological dig on Jerusalem's Mount Zion has been going on for over a decade, looking at an area where there were no known ruins of major temples, ...

In May 1096, an army of Christians attacked the Jews of Speyer. The violence didn't last long though, as the bishop of Speyer protected the Jews and arrested some of the perpetrators. The army moved ...

After the First Crusade seized Jerusalem, the Crusader states faced relentless war to hold their ground. From the clash at ...

In 1000, the Emperor Otto III was pursuing an ambitious foreign policy, aimed at uniting European territories in a peaceful alliance bound together by a common Christian culture. Sound familiar? It ...

When you think about the brutal weaponry of the Crusades, you probably think of swords, bows, maces, axes, and flails. But according to a study recently published in PLoS One, you should add hand ...