One day, while living with her husband in London, Elisabeth Payne Rosen spilled her groceries in front of the Duke of York’s Barracks on King’s Road and in a flash of inspiration, decided that she wanted to know everything about the American Civil War. Rosen’s ensuing research is presented in her first novel “Hallam’s Warâ€â€”the [...]
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Feb
The ruins of the ancient Assyrian city of Palmyra rise out of the desert sands of eastern Syria. The stone it is made from is rose-gold, and glows as the sun sets. On one side there is the modern village of Palmyra. Here satellite dishes rise from flat rooftops and 4×4s park on the road [...]
2
Feb
Unearthed from his Wyoming ranch and dusted off, Harrison Ford is bringing everyone’s favourite archaeologist back to the big screen this summer with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
But it’s not just whip-cracking archaeologists sparking interest in all things ancient: the once-out-of-bounds destinations - Libya, Syria and Iran - are receiving [...]
2
Feb
Through the souk, skirting the Great Mosque, along Straight Street and past Ananias’s house (where the scales fell from St Paul’s eyes); there was somebody I had to find in the warren of streets and alleyways in the old walled city of Damascus. There’s no mention of him in the guidebooks, but I’d heard the [...]
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