[6] The horrors of the long siege were recounted by the contemporary Armenian historian Kirakos: They ate clean and unclean animals and then started to eat people when there was no more food.

Many people died from the extreme cold of the snow which covered the mountains in wintertime.When the city was captured at last after a siege of two years, the Muslims were massacred, but the Christians were spared.

[2] Finally the Ayyubid ruler Al-Kamil Muhammad was killed when Mayyafariqin fell to the Mongols on 7 April 1260 (23 Rabia II 658).

[10] Meanwhile Hulegu continued his conquest of the rest of Syria, accompanied by the forces of Hethum I of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia and the Crusaders of Bohemond VI of Antioch.

[8][3] The Georgian ruler David VII declined to commit more Georgian-Armenian troops for these Mongol campaigns in Syria, on account that he had suffered huge losses in the 1258 siege of Baghdad.