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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 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…

Still standing in Jerusalem, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher enshrines the reputed sites of Jesus’s crucifixion, entombment, and resurrection. In the 17th century, Middle Eastern craftsmen—working in Franciscan monasteries in the Holy Land—produced…