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The Siege of Acre in 1291 CE was the final fatal blow to Christian Crusader ambitions in the Holy Land. Acre had always been the most important Christian-held port in the Levant, but when it finally fell on 18 May 1291...

The Crusader States (aka the Latin East or Outremer) were created after the First Crusade (1095-1102) in order to keep hold of the territorial gains made by Christian armies in the Middle East. The four small states were the Kingdom...

A reconstruction of a typical medieval castle dinner table. Warwick Castle, U.K.

This offering table, from a temple or a tomb, bears a depiction of a mat laid with food offerings; loaves, water vessels, and fowl. Ritual libations were poured over the images to purify them for the magical consumption...

Restored stone table on which were placed the sacrificial offerings to the Gods in Greek religious practice. One tray was for the 'Epidaurian Gods' (Apollo & Esklepios), the other for Zeus. (c. 300 BCE). Nemea Archaeological...

The surface of this black granite offering table is carved in relief with images of food and drink offerings. From Egypt. 12th or 13th Dynasty, circa 1985-1750 BCE. (The British Museum, London)

An 18th-century Pembroke table by the celebrated British furniture manufacturer Thomas Chippendale (1718–1779).

Offerings were placed upon a reed mat, reproduced in stone as the offering tables of the Dynastic periods. On this royal example, the hieroglyph hetep "offering" is written on the surface. The sign comprises...

A Bronze Age table dolmen on the island of Ganghwa, South Korea. c. 1000 BCE. Such structures were built above tombs of the elite.

A table of Tel Kabri's stratigraphy for Middle Bronze Age I and II. Source: Yasur-Landau et al. 2014, 356-364; Kempinski 2002, 4-5 Yasur-Landau et al. 2012, 3.