Through months of excavating an old library in the Middle East, our group of archeologists and historians have found fragments of a secret treaty between the nobles of the First Crusade and the Seljuk Turks. The treaty was written in French which we all know, the main language spoken by the Crusaders. It was found to be written using carbon ink on goat skins. Since it is an organic material artifact, it is more likely to be susceptible to environmental damage. Hence, extra careful steps were taken to clean the artifact. The artifact was sprayed with fungicide to prevent molding and then placed in a sealed plastic bag to be brought to a lab for further investigation . Furthermore, using radiocarbon (Carbon-14) test, we managed to determine the
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The resources included woods supply to make the siege engines. Their relations with the Byzantines were shaky when Emperor Alexius I had abandoned the Crusaders during the attack in Antioch which against their alliance agreement . Also, their march to Jerusalem was also without Emperor Alexius I concluded the alliance had gone downhill.
On the other hand, the Turks’ real motive of the offer was to take over the city again once the crusaders managed to defeat the Fatimids. Thus, after the crusaders successfully penetrated into Jerusalem, the Turks tried to take over from them but failed. The Crusaders were too overwhelmed in killing the Muslims and Jews. The Turks army had to withdraw from their planned secret attack. Knowing this, the Crusaders considered the agreement became automatically invalid. That is why we see no written records on handing over half of the land to the …show more content…
Even if it meant against another Muslim kingdom. No other account had found to be talking about this important little detail in the Crusades history. One huge reason for this is because the crusade started with a religious enthusiasm. Accepting the God’s enemy’s help totally contradicted the initial aim of the crusade. The condition during the siege of Jerusalem was very harsh and lead to the leaders to take this big decision. However, the biggest highlight of this discovery is that it is a proof that a Muslim force was actually involved in the sieging of Jerusalem; the unfortunate event where many Muslims and Jews were massacred mercilessly. This also just another proof of the rough relationship between Seljuk Turks and Fatimids. This can be a lesson to us that in our engagement to fight with each other, the outside enemy is just waiting to strike at the right time. And when that happens, it would be too late to do anything. As the famous saying from George Santayana, “Those who forget history are condemned to repeat
The resources included woods supply to make the siege engines. Their relations with the Byzantines were shaky when Emperor Alexius I had abandoned the Crusaders during the attack in Antioch which against their alliance agreement . Also, their march to Jerusalem was also without Emperor Alexius I concluded the alliance had gone downhill.
On the other hand, the Turks’ real motive of the offer was to take over the city again once the crusaders managed to defeat the Fatimids. Thus, after the crusaders successfully penetrated into Jerusalem, the Turks tried to take over from them but failed. The Crusaders were too overwhelmed in killing the Muslims and Jews. The Turks army had to withdraw from their planned secret attack. Knowing this, the Crusaders considered the agreement became automatically invalid. That is why we see no written records on handing over half of the land to the …show more content…
Even if it meant against another Muslim kingdom. No other account had found to be talking about this important little detail in the Crusades history. One huge reason for this is because the crusade started with a religious enthusiasm. Accepting the God’s enemy’s help totally contradicted the initial aim of the crusade. The condition during the siege of Jerusalem was very harsh and lead to the leaders to take this big decision. However, the biggest highlight of this discovery is that it is a proof that a Muslim force was actually involved in the sieging of Jerusalem; the unfortunate event where many Muslims and Jews were massacred mercilessly. This also just another proof of the rough relationship between Seljuk Turks and Fatimids. This can be a lesson to us that in our engagement to fight with each other, the outside enemy is just waiting to strike at the right time. And when that happens, it would be too late to do anything. As the famous saying from George Santayana, “Those who forget history are condemned to repeat