He wandered the known world in Africa, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, India and China and after the end of his journeys he told his stories to Ibn Juzayy, a scholar he had previously met in Granada. Ibn Battuta in Egypt -- a painting by Hippolyte Leon Benett https://www.silkroadresearchcenter.org/s_r-travelers.html A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the… Continue reading Ibn Battuta – The Greatest Traveler of the Ancient World
Photo: Library and Archives Canada/e004665218 PreviousNext By Adam Shoalts March 8, 2011 One of the strangest and least known chapters in North American history is surely the story of Greenland’s Norse (Vikings) and the Thule people (Inuit). The standard narrative of North American history is turned on its head here, where centuries ago a Native… Continue reading Reverse Colonialism – How the Inuit Conquered the Vikings | Canadian Geographic
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon Lisbon (/ˈlɪzbən/; Portuguese: Lisboa; [liʒˈboɐ] (listen))[4] is the capital and the largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 508,368[1] within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2.[5] Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administrative limits with a population of around 2.0 million people, being the 10th-most populous urban area in… Continue reading Lisbon – Wikipedia
https://thetemplarknight.com/2012/12/24/templars-assassins-attack/ It’s one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Crusades. What looks an unprovoked attack by the Knights Templar on a group of Assassins who had been talking peace terms with the crusader King of Jerusalem. What led the Templars to this course of action? The story unfolds in the 1160s. Jerusalem had been… Continue reading The mysterious Templar attack on the Assassins – The Templar Knight
https://thetemplarknight.com/2012/11/18/crusader-egypt/ We often think of the Crusades as something that happened in the what is termed the Holy Land. Broadly the battles were fought in what is now Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. But in fact, there were other crusader theatres of war including the land of the pyramids – Egypt. In the shadow of… Continue reading The Crusade in Egypt – land of the Pyramids – The Templar Knight
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