The fall of Jerusalem 4

July 15, 1099. After five brutal weeks of siege, the walls of Jerusalem are breached. What followed was not a triumphant liberation — it was one of the most notorious massacres in medieval history.

In this episode we follow the Crusaders from their catastrophic losses in Anatolia, through famine, disease, and the scorching Judean desert, all the way to the moment a knight named Lethold became the first man to stand on Jerusalem's walls. We watch the city fall in real time — and then we turn the lens around.

Because this day looked entirely different depending on where you stood. For the Crusaders, it was God's promise fulfilled. For the Islamic world, it was a theological wound that would take half a century to even begin to answer. For Jerusalem's Jewish community, it was extermination and erasure.

And none of it stayed in 1099. This is the story of how one day became a prism through which centuries of conflict were refracted — and why it still echoes today.

Видео The fall of Jerusalem 4 канала World in Ages