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The Crusades were a series of military campaigns organised by Christian powers in order to retake Jerusalem and the Holy Land back from Muslim control. There would be eight officially sanctioned crusades between 1095 CE and 1270 CE and many...

Holy Grail tapestries: The Arming of the Knights, tapestry in wool and silk designed by Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, and John Henry Dearle, 1890. Private Collection.

Part of the Rollright Stones complex, the Whispering Knights, the remains of the burial chamber of a Middle to Late Neolithic portal dolmen, are estimated to date to between 3800 and 3000 BCE.

Simplified chronology of the Greek Dark Age

A sekomata used to measure standard quantities of liquids. From the agora of Piraeus. (Archaeological Museum, Piraeus)

Segments I and II of the Tabula Peutingeriana, an ancient Roman map showing the road network of the Roman Empire. Published in 1657 by Jan Janssonius (1588-1664) as part of his historical atlas.

Overview of the different pottery styles found in Greece between 1050 BC to 700 BC.

Three houses of similar design were originally constructed in 1832 CE at the Te Waimate Mission in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. Only one house remains on site. This photo shows the dining area in one of the two main rooms on either side...

The Crusades were a series of military campaigns organised by popes and Christian western powers to take Jerusalem and the Holy Land back from Muslim control and then defend those gains. There were eight major official crusades between 1095...

The Battle of Hattin in July 1187 CE in present-day Israel was one of the great victories of Saladin, the Sultan of Egypt and Syria (r. 1174-1193 CE). The army of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and its Latin allies were totally defeated and, shortly...