How a Bottle of Rosewater Helped Topple Jerusalem
Medieval Middle East

How a Bottle of Rosewater Helped Topple Jerusalem

Saladin swept through the Crusader kingdoms in 1187—but one small bottle of rosewater may have done more damage than his cavalry.

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