The Hagia Sophia is to be turned back into a mosque having been a museum for eighty years after a court decision now enforced by President Erdogan
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Category: Templar News
Tags: Ataturk, basilica, christian, church, constantine, constantinople, Constantius, court, decision, demonstration, Erdogan, Hagia, Hagia Sophia, Islam, Islamist, istanbul, Justinian, mosque, muslim, party, protest, roman, sacred, social media, Sofia, Theodosius, tourist, turkey, welfare, workship
So – where was Jesus really crucified? An Easter mystery!
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: bible, catholic, cross, crucifixion, Easter, garden, holy, jerusalem, jesus, mystery, orthodox, place, resurrection, roman, sepulchre, site, Templar, tomb, walls, worship
A mysterious Copper Scroll was found in Jordan by archaeologists in the 1950s. The two thousand year old artefact seemed to detail the location of treasure hidden at different locations by a mysterious Jewish cult called the Essenes. But it’s…
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: Bedouin, buried, copper scroll, dead sea, gold, Gutfeld, hidden, History Channel, israel, jordan, Knightfall, knights, Palestine, Qumran, roman, scrolls, Seleucid, silver, Templar, today, treasure
The Knights Templar were involved in a bitter seven centuries long crusade in Spain and Portugal between Christian and Muslim kingdoms
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Abd al-Rahman, afonso, Al-Andalus, Al-usbuna, Al-Usbunna, allah, Andalus, Ark, buried, Calatrava, Caliphate, castile, catholic, christian, conquest, convivencia, covenant, escape, gualdim, henriques, History Channel, Holy Grail, Islam, jizya, Knightfall, knights, Leon, martim, moniz, moor, Moorish, muslim, Navarre, pais, portugal, roman, spain, Templar, templars, tomar, treasure
On the blog, I’ve shown you examples of Roman buildings reused in the medieval period – in Rome and York for example. But Roman statues were also refashioned. Sometimes in rather peculiar ways. Medieval statue in Venice is Roman stuff…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Amasea, Dandolo, doge, medieval, patron, roman, saint, Templar, Theodore, Venetian, Venice
Medieval walls were often built on top of earlier Roman fortifications as can be seen in York
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Castra, eboracum, history, middle ages, multangular, roman, Roman Emperor, rome, Septimius Severus, tower, York
The 6th century AD Madaba Map gives an exclusive view of Byzantine Jerusalem in thousands of tiles that make up an amazing mosaic
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Category: Templar History
Tags: byzantine, christianity, church, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, constantinople, empire, Holy Sepulchre, jerusalem, Justinian, knights templar, Madaba, map, Nea, roman, Roman Empire, rome, Theotokos
The ancient Roman city of Jerash never stopped changing through the Byzantine and crusader period though it declined economically and because of earthquakes
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The Temple of Artemis at Jerash became a Saracen fortress and was stormed by a crusader army including Knights Templar who hid wealth there
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Antioch, Artemis, Damascus, Decapolis, Jerash, knights templar, knights templar history, roman, Roman Empire, Roman temple, saracen, Templar, Temple, treasure, underground
The Templar Knight blog has just visited the biblical city of Gadara – part of the Decapolis – and now known as Um Qais to see its Roman ruins
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Tags: amphitheatre, Ancient, Ancient Rome, basalt, byzantine, Byzantine Empire, Decapolis, Gadara, Galilee, jesus, jordan, Kingdom, middle east, roman, rome, Saudi Arabia, syria, Templar, Um Qais