Crusader mass grave in Lebanon sheds light on cruelty of medieval warfare

JPost ^ | 9/23/21 | Rossella Tercatin

[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 While widely chronicled in historical documents, very few archaeological remains have been found documenting the battles.

[SunkenCiv]

Whoops.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3996729/posts

[ronnie raygun]

evil white people against peace loving muslims

[Verginius Rufus]

Actually the Turks began expanding into Europe in the 1350s...the battle of Kosovo was in 1389. Constantinople managed to hold out until 1453 because of its excellent defenses but a good portion of southeastern Europe was under Ottoman control by then.

As the article points out, there were cases when Jews were massacred by Crusaders, but Pope Urban II's objective when he called for the first Crusade was to free Jerusalem from the Muslim Turks, and I doubt any Catholic bishops encouraged the Crusaders to kill Jews...that was done by ignorant rank-and-file Crusaders.

[Coffee... Black... No Sugar]

Artful finality. …