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Crusader mass grave in Lebanon sheds light on cruelty of medieval warfare
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| 9/23/21
| Rossella Tercatin
Posted on 09/24/2021 5:25:11 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
A mass grave uncovered in Sidon, Lebanon, has shed new light on the Crusades and on the cruelty of medieval warfare, a new study in the academic journal PLOS ONE has shown.
Archaeologists unearthed a large quantity of human bones in the moat of the Saint Louis Castle in South Lebanon.
The area was first conquered by the Crusaders after the First Crusade in 1110. Some 150 years later, the Christian city was attacked and largely destroyed by the Mamluks in 1253 and then destroyed even more by the Mongols in 1260.
Pursuing the idea of liberating the holy sites from Muslim rule and encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church, European powers and sometimes peoples initiated several military campaigns in the Middle East during those centuries, which led to the establishment of a number of Christian states in the area of modern Israel, Lebanon and Syria, and for a certain period managed to place Jerusalem under Christian rule, following massacres against Jews, both in Europe and in the Middle East. While widely chronicled in historical documents, very few archaeological remains have been found documenting the battles.
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TOPICS: Government; Israel; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; archaeology; bodies; crusaders; crusades; death; godsgravesglyphs; islamofascism; islamofascists; koranimals; lebanon; medieval; middleages; radiocarbondating; renaissance; sidon; stlouiscastle
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To: DoughtyOne
The Spaniards could not take an overland route to reach the spice lands. Going around the horn of Africa was slow and dangerous, so...
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posted on
09/24/2021 6:09:16 PM PDT
by
lightman
(I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
To: lightman
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posted on
09/24/2021 6:12:17 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Biden = Green Light to > China, N. K., Russia, M/E Terrorists, FBI, CDC, MSM, & the Left...)
To: Berlin_Freeper
The crusaders, among whom was the English prince Edward Longshanks, landed at Carthage 17 July 1270, but disease broke out in the camp. Many died of dysentery, and on 25 August, Louis himself died.![](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRyC5qhQ-Q0iH1pt8ziwwQv0Yl_vg_b2Fa7Mw&usqp=CAU)
St. Louis Cathedral, Carthage--named for King Louis IX
This is no longer a house of worship but is used as an auditorium.
To: Fiji Hill
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posted on
09/24/2021 6:37:14 PM PDT
by
Berlin_Freeper
(President Trump: "It's a great vaccine, it's a safe vaccine and it's something that works.")
To: Roman_War_Criminal
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posted on
09/24/2021 6:47:18 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: DoughtyOne; MNJohnnie
Here it is presented that they were only there to protect Christians in the region. The fact is, they were taking the battle to the region because of extreme Islamic adventurism. Islamic adventurism is not really a thing of the past either. It is a integral part of the religion.
The Turkish invasion of Cyprus
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posted on
09/24/2021 7:13:25 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
To: Roman_War_Criminal
Throwing bodies into a most isn't really a mass grave.
A moat is a line of defense. Making it putrid and toxic adds to the defensabilaty of the castle.
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posted on
09/24/2021 7:18:00 PM PDT
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
To: SunkenCiv
To: Roman_War_Criminal; All
The Lombards in the First Crusade![](https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-8X6xnL6/1/XL/i-8X6xnL6-XL.jpg)
![](https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-QJmgnnv/0/X3/i-QJmgnnv-X3.jpg)
Lombardi Motto: 'Impavidum Ferient Ruinae.' Trans: "The ruin will strike him unafraid"
"Horace opens one of his odes with a depiction of a Stoic hero who will submit to the ruin of the universe around him: "Si fractus illabatur orbis, impavidum ferient ruinae" — "Should the whole frame of Nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world." (Odes 3.3.7-8)
"Quintus Horatius Flaccus, (Venusia, December 8, 65 BC – Rome, November 27, 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus."
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posted on
09/24/2021 7:58:01 PM PDT
by
Main Street
(Stuck in traffic.)
To: wastoute
For the first time since the Battle of Tours in 732 AD, the battle in which Charles Martel (literally Charles the Hammer) stopped the Muslim expansion of the Umayyad Caliphate into Europe and the Emirates of Sicily, Islam had not expanded into Europe until the fall of Constantinople in 1453 by the hands of the Ottomans. The Ottoman Caliphate continued its expansion after that for two hundred more years and would reach further into Europe than any other Muslim Empire had done previously. But in 1683 that would all come to a halt and mark the end of the Ottoman Expansion into Europe. This momentous occasion would be the Battle of Vienna.
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posted on
09/24/2021 8:15:05 PM PDT
by
jpsb
To: DoughtyOne
>> The Islamicists attacked Europe over 500 times, and the Crusaders attacked somewhere around 12-20 times
And I believe the Islamists murdered at least 270 million.
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posted on
09/24/2021 8:24:34 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: Roman_War_Criminal
Sidon was founded by the Phoenicians and has been conquered many times. That whole area is a mass grave.
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posted on
09/25/2021 12:00:21 AM PDT
by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
To: Pontiac
I agree, and it’s not looking to co-dwell with any other
belief system.
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posted on
09/25/2021 12:27:59 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
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To: Gene Eric
i honestly have no idea. I don’t recall seeing and estimate
on that.
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posted on
09/25/2021 12:34:08 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Biden = Green Light to > China, N. K., Russia, M/E Terrorists, FBI, CDC, MSM, & the Left...)
To: DoughtyOne
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posted on
09/25/2021 5:19:43 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: Pontiac
100% but I will say maybe N Africa was Christian for 500 years before the muzzies came in. Starting with Egypt.
It’s Jpost so take it with a grain of salt and note it’s more MSM trying to black brush Christianity as evil.
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posted on
09/25/2021 5:31:01 AM PDT
by
Roman_War_Criminal
(Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
To: PIF
To: Coffee... Black... No Sugar
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Not much of a comment
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posted on
09/25/2021 7:50:10 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: Roman_War_Criminal
Mass Grave of Slaughtered Crusaders Discovered in Lebanon [09/20/2021]
![](https://i.imgur.com/eRHYOoK.png)
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posted on
09/25/2021 8:24:52 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Tennessee Nana
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posted on
09/25/2021 8:25:35 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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