Karak Reconstruction. Workers and scaffolding in the moat at Karak Castle show the reconstruction underway. The original castle entrance -- the Crusader's Gate -- is visible, at the end of a bridge that spans the moat. The Crusader castle at Karak guarded the eastern border of the Kingdom of Jerusalem after the first Crusade. © Rick Collier




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Karak Reconstruction. Workers and scaffolding in the moat at Karak Castle show the reconstruction underway. The original castle entrance -- the Crusader's Gate -- is visible, at the end of a bridge that spans the moat. The Crusader castle at Karak guarded the eastern border of the Kingdom of Jerusalem after the first Crusade. © Rick Collier




Jordan Karak al-Karak castle crusader crusades knights fort fortress history historic tourist tourism antiquities 'Kingdom of Jerusalem' battlement battlements walls moat defenses entrance window tower ruin ruins chapel church archaeology archaeological construction reconstruction work worker