The infant was clothed and fully interred only 40 cm below ground, she was laid on her back alone in the grave, her head resting on a smooth stone.

Yasmine was carefully wrapped in medical gauze and immobilized with splinting devices by the team and transported from the grotto to a customized laboratory, created by the discoverers.

The grotto in which they had been interred acted as a perfect cast for the buried bodies, eliminating the formation of air pockets that normally facilitate the process of decomposition.

[8] Tripoli was one of the four fundamental city units of the Crusaders Kingdom of Jerusalem [9] the County of Edessa, the Principality of Antioch, and the Royal Territories.

The witness and writer of the original account of 1283 tells us that: ‘’’ "On August 22, 1283 the Muslim soldiers headed toward al-Hadath where the inhabitants took refuge in a magnificent and inaccessible grotto called al-'Asi.

The soldiers received it through the Aman _ a pledge of security and a promise of protection given by Muslim(s) to non-Muslim(s) (Jews and Christians) belonging to dar al-harb (Abode of War) for a specific period of time.

Those non-Muslims who belong to dar al-salam (Adobe of Islam) fall under the dhimmi status.,[17] then burned its prefecture (the al-Hadath village) by fire and took the women captives."

The accounts coincide in time, place, and action, and confirm an offensive against al-Hadath, thereby providing some historical context for our understanding of this archaeological discovery.

[3] Apart from the mummies, a wealth of artifacts found at the site suggest that the people buried there were Maronites from al-Hadath, and their deaths occurred circa 1283, which corresponds to the reign of the Mamluks and the presence of the Crusaders.

"[19] Textile finds are identical to designs found in the Syriac Rabbula Gospels, a 6th-century manuscript which belonged to the Maronite Patriarchate until the mid-15th century, but is now housed in Florence, Italy.

She was adorned with one earring, and a necklace garnished with mouth-blown glass pearls and two coin pieces dated to the era of the Sultan Mamluk Baybars.

We are almost certain that the infant is hers since this method of burial is still practiced today in Lebanon when the deaths of both mother and child are caused by complications in the birthing process.

In some areas of Lebanon such as the Bekaa Valley, the cotton and cloth pieces are wrapped around a small onion and inserted in the human orifices.

In this case the person died in a besieged Grotto, so the key was tossed in the grave [28] similar circumstances mourners will comment by saying, "pity this family, their house is forever closed."