The Athlit Cemetery, the largest known Crusader resting place in the Middle East, lies outside the 13th-century Knights Templar's Athlit Castle.
Potsherds and coin finds date the numerous graves to the short period between 1218 and 1291. The deceased…
The Crusader castle of Belvoir is located on a hill of the Naphtali plateau, about 500 meters above the Jordan Valley and a few miles south of Lake Tiberias (the Sea of Galilee). It is surrounded by a moat, and built with an outer and inner…
Upon its foundation in 1142, the Kerak or Karak of Moab Castle became the stronghold of the Latin Lordship of Transjordan, which was part of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. The fortress surrendered to Saladin in 1188.
Why was the particular location…