The Templar Knight
Mysteries of the Knights Templar
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Evidence of the Knights Templar fleeing the Holy Land with their loot?
The former Templar stronghold of Acre in modern Israel has been throwing up some interesting discoveries of late. Templar treasure? A team from Haifa University found the wreck of a long lost crusader ship in the bay with a horde…
Read MoreThe Battle for Acre – disaster for the Knights Templar
In 2012, I visited the ancient town of Acre in modern Israel (now called Akko). It’s still dominated by the castle built by the Knights Templar and underneath this might medieval construction is a secret tunnel – its purpose still…
Read MoreWhere did a Templar go to the toilet?
There’s some widely held misconceptions about how filthy people were in the Middle Ages. A common view is that nobody washed and worse still…defecated or urinated wherever they wanted. The truth is actually surprisingly different. At the castle of Acre…
Read MoreThe Forgotten Crusade
Victory and Defeat – part III of the BBC series ‘The Crusades‘ aired tonight in the UK. Jerusalem had fallen once more to Islam while three Christian kingdoms – Antioch, Tripoli and (confusingly) Jerusalem – clung on to the coastline. …
Read MoreThe mysterious origins of the Knights Templar – fact versus conspiracy theory!
The origins of the Knights Templar are wrapped in mystery. Were they set up by the Priory of Sion or Rex Deus or just a security force protecting pilgrims?
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