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Mysteries of the Knights Templar
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Winter is coming! But it’s a Templar winter, not a Targaryan one!
Winter is coming – but courtesy of the History Channel, it will be a Templar winter. Forget the dragons and white walkers, give me the Knights Templar any day of the week. Here is the trailer for the series you…
Read MoreTomar – filming with the History Channel on a Templar quest
I have just returned from a very Templar themed holiday in Portugal! SPOILER FREE! I’m not going to give away one tiny morsel of the thrilling documentary on the Templars that the History Channel is planning to accompany its Templar…
Read MoreTomar – mysterious city of the Knights Templar
I’ve been filming with the History Channel in Tomar, a town in central Portugal that was once a stronghold of the Knights Templar. I’ve written about this magical place before but having gone back again this year, I just need…
Read MoreTreasure of the Knights Templar
One of the greatest mysteries relating to the Knights Templar is whether the order discovered some form of treasure in Jerusalem that would offer an explanation for their fabulous wealth. Nine knights at the start of the 12th century went…
Read MoreDid the Templars find anything under the Temple of Solomon?
The nine knights who founded the Knights Templar petitioned the Patriarch of Jerusalem in 1119 to establish their headquarters in what had been the Al Aqsa mosque – before the crusaders seized the city in 1099, putting an end to…
Read MoreSpain and Portugal – battle ground between Islam and Christianity
Say the word “Crusades” to many people and they automatically think of the Holy Land, Syria and Egypt. The wars between Christian knights and Muslim warriors are seen entirely as a violent confrontation that took place only in the Middle…
Read MoreTen things you never knew about the Knights Templar
Ten things you never knew about the Knights Templar such as running a slave trade and inventing offshore banking
Read MoreMount Nebo – where Moses died – and possible location of the Ark of the Covenant
My visit to Mount Nebo in 2013 where Moses reputedly died and the Ark of the Covenant is buried
Read MoreTemplars’ Lost Treasure – on National Geographic
They only existed for barely two centuries – but the Knights Templar continue to fascinate….so says the National Geographic channel and we certainly wouldn’t object. The knights formed the top of the medieval fighting machine and were based in the…
Read MoreDid the Knights Templar take the Ark of the Covenant from Ethiopia?
According to Syfy series Legend Quest – yes, they did. Following the route of the Ark of the Covenant, they ended up (during the crusades) in Lalibella, northern Ethiopia, where they built a church for the local African Christians. So…
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