The Assassins were a medieval death cult that today would be regarded as terrorists as TV historian Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Assassins, Assassins Creed, crusader, crusades, history, Islam, jerusalem, Marco Polo, Medieval, muslim, Nizari, Old Man of the Mountain, shia, sunni, Templar
Templar controlled Acre in the Holy Land was a mix of Las Vegas and London – a cosmopolitan fleshpot in the Middle Ages
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Acre, Akka, Akko, commerce, cosmopolitan, crusader, crusades, culture, dollar, fortress, Holy Land, integration, israel, knights, Las Vegas, money, saladin, saracen, secret, Templar, trade, tunnel, United States
Who on earth would steal the head of a crusader – dead for many centuries? A disrespectful idiot is who! Let me tell you the story… Back in 1976, aged 12, I was taken to see the mummified body of…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 2019, church, corpse, crusader, Dublin, head, ireland, Medieval, michan, police, robbed, saint, skeleton, skull, stolen, Templar, theft
How the Knights Templar survived in Portugal by changing their name
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Category: Templar History
Tags: afonso, buried, christ, Clement, cristo, crusader, Czech, Dinis, Grail, hidden, History Channel, holy, knight, Knightfall, Moors, ordem, Order, order of christ, pope, portugal, rei, saracen, secret, Soumrak templářů, Templar, tomar, torture, treasure, tunnel
There is an incredible claim that the Muslim Shahada is inscribed on the back of the throne of St Peter in the Vatican as Tony McMahon reports
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: allah, basilica, byzantine, Charles the Bald, crusader, Islam, Muhammad, muslim, pope, Prophet, rome, san pietro di castello, Shahadah, St Peters, Templar, throne
Some mysterious crop circles turned up in Temple Balsall where the Templars once had a preceptory
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The castle of Al-Karak in Jordan – الكرك – الأردن – was visited by my good self in 2013. It is one of the great crusader forts still standing in the region. Unfortunately, three years after my visit, ISIS terrorists…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1188, Al-karak, battle, castle, crusader, fort, jordan, Knight Templar, Knightfall, military, Montreal, Raynald of Châtillon, saladin, siege, soldier, Templar, terrorist, war, Warrior
Egypt was as much a target for Crusader and Knight Templar activity as other parts of the Middle East as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Baghdad, byzantine, Cairo, Caliphate, crusader, egypt, Fatimid, Fatimid Caliphate, Islam, jerusalem, shia, sunni
The Siege of Acre in 1291 saw the Mamluks overrun the crusader fortress defeating the Knights Hospitaller and Knights Templar
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Acre, Akko, battle, buried, crusader, Holy Grail, Knight Templar, Knightfall, Knights Hospitaller, Mamluks, saladin, saracen, secret, siege, Templar, treasure, tunnel
Well – if you’re trying to explain the crusades to your kids, why not get the Playmobil figures? I did. Hours of fun. I think one of these is a Templar, the chap with a black cross could be a…
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