Before the First Crusade was ever declared, a blue-eyed Slavic warlord ruling from the shores of al-Andalus launched a bold invasion of Sardinia, drawing Rome, Pisa, and Genoa into a conflict that ...

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, ...

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 ...

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The first European crusaders of the Holy Land were inspired by the fame and fortune awarded to the Norman conquerors in Europe, a new book shows. Many of those who went to the Middle East were ...

This earpiece, perhaps of Egyptian manufacture, is apparent loot from the First Crusade sack of Jerusalem in July, 1099. Credit: Virginia Withers This earpiece, perhaps of Egyptian manufacture, is ...