Garden of Death - The Truth Behind the Assassins

Hidden in the mountains of 11th-century Persia, Hassan-i Sabbah built a fortress that would become legend — Alamut, the Eagle’s Nest. From its shadowed halls, he forged a new kind of weapon: men who killed without hesitation, who died without fear, and whose faith made kings tremble in their beds.

They were the Hashashin — the Order of Assassins. To their enemies, they were demons. To their followers, martyrs. To history, the birth of an idea so potent that it outlived empires.

This episode of History Declassified uncovers the line between myth and truth — from the whispered gardens of paradise to the political murders that reshaped the medieval world. It’s the story of how one man’s vision of faith became a legacy of fear… and how the word assassin was born from his name.