AMMAN — One of the first major campaigns of the First Crusade was the siege of Antioch in spring of 1098. The actual siege began in October 1097 and local Muslims leaders, led by Yaghi Siyan sent ...

Peter the Hermit, leading People's Crusade (Photo of miniature from Egerton Manuscript 1500) AMMAN — Kerbogha mobilised a coalition of heterogenous Muslim emirs from Jazira in order to meet crusaders ...

There are quite a few literary and cinematic works about the First Crusade, and in most of them, beginning with the anonymous Gesta Francorum or Torquato Tasso’s famous epic poem The liberated ...

The film is based on Temple Thurston's play of the same name, and the adaptation is divided into four episodes. The first is Jerusalem on the day of the Crucifixion; the second, Antioch in the ...

AMMAN - One of the first major campaigns of the First Crusade was the siege of Antioch in spring of 1098. The actual siege began in October 1097 an ...