Mount Zion

This large and valuable earpiece is perhaps of Egyptian origin and may have been loot from the first Crusade sack of Jerusalem. Credit: Virginia Withers.

Archaeological Evidence Verifies Medieval Accounts Of First Crusade

Posted on July 25, 2019
Categories: College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences, Research Tags: archaeology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, history, James Tabor, Mount Zion, religious studies, research, Shimon Gibson, UNC Charlotte

Finds at the UNC Charlotte-led archaeological dig on Jerusalem’s Mount Zion confirm previously unverified details from nearly thousand-year-old historical accounts of the First Crusade. This is history that had never been confirmed regarding the five-week siege, conquest, sack and massacre of the Fatimid (Muslim)-controlled city in July of 1099.

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