The Crusaders in the Mountains of Lebanon

Watching one of the Lord of the Rings movies showing soldiers in mail (is that what it's called, chainlink armor?) Driving through the gorgeous treed mountains where wild baby iris and cyclamin grew in the rich dark brown earth, we stopped a small crusader museum displaying the armor that crusadors wore.

Part of what that does is help make the story real. We know we tell it as history, but there are so many stories these days, so many movies and novels, real, fictionalized and full fiction, that it can be hard to fully retain what is history and what is mere story.

Stone walls, or concrete. Stone floors, or concrete. Very simple displays. History preserved in a walk through vault.