Crusades
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Roman Palestine and the Crusades
Drawing on childhood reading of English history, the author outlines Roman rule in Palestine, the Jewish diaspora after 70 CE, and the Crusades, arguing that no Babylonian or Assyrian records…
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The Crusades, Wootz/Damascus Steel, Pandanus and Dumbara Mats,
A post on Sri Lanka’s Pandanus species and the blue-flowered Kora-kaha, covering their uses in cooking, coastal protection, Dumbara mats and the yellow dye for monks’ robes, and tenuously linking…
