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Archaeologists Tell the History of the Crusaders Using DNA

History can tell us a lot about the Crusades, the series of religious wars fought between 1095 and 1291, in which Christian invaders tried to claim the Near East. But the DNA of nine 13th-century Crusaders buried in a pit in Lebanon shows that there’s more to learn about who the Crusaders were and their ...

Troy Oakes

Skeletons of Crusaders.