Antioch Buried the Wrong Man
Medieval Crusades

Antioch Buried the Wrong Man

Full military honors marked the burial of a Byzantine general, but the corpse inside the coffin belonged to someone else entirely, and the mix-up quietly altered the course of the First Crusade.

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