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This stained glass window shows a depiction of crusaders riding towards Jerusalem

These folios from Saladin's Treatise on Armor show just one example of the illustration and text in the complete manuscript, which can be viewed in its entirety here:…

This piece of marble from the MET is believed to be a decorative element from the tomb of the child king of Jerusalem, Baldwin V (reigned 1183–1186) or that of his uncle Baldwin IV (reigned 1161–1185). The tomb was inside the Holy Sepulcher.

This illustration from the 18th century shows what the full tomb of Baldwin V would have looked like.

The Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem contains the sites of Jesus' crucifixion (on Golgotha) as well as the tomb (hence the name, Holy Sepulcher) where we was buried before his resurrection. The Church has been a site of Christian worship for…

This pilgrim ampulla shows two military saints (George and Demetrios) on one side and a depiction of the body of Christ lying in the Holy Sepulcher on the other

This image shows the scene of Christ's body lying in the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

This face of the ampulla shows the two saints, George and Demetrios

The Hague, KB, 76 F 5, fol. 1r: Plan of Jerusalem and scene of the knights of the cross. Potentially made as a Psalter/the prefatory cycle preceding a Psalter

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…