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Crusader knights lived on the move, which may explain why no camps have ever been found. Now one has, in Israel, and now we know how the soldiers whiled away their time while waiting for war
Crusader knights lived on the move, which may explain why no camps have ever been found. Now one has, and now we know how the soldiers whiled away their time while waiting for war
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Mar. 5, 2021
Of late, the image of a wild boar that I first saw a few months ago at the Stockade and Tower Museum at Kibbutz Hanita has snuck back into my thoughts. Most of the rather old-fashioned exhibition in the small museum way up north is devoted to the story of modern Jews and their land settlement enterprise – including the so-called stockade and tower communities – in Mandatory Palestine. But for my money, the museum’s most interesting room is the one displaying evidence of human habitation on the hills up there in different periods: hunter-gatherers who honed stones into knives (more than 10 thousand years ago); Phoenician inscriptions (from approximately 3,000 B.C.E.) found, together with other objects, in the burial caves in the nearby forest; and the crowning glory, three mosaics, among them one of a boar, created from thousands of brown-black-bluish stones, that were once part of the floor of the fifth-century C.E. Byzantine church that stood here.