Getting Babylon ready for visitors after the rule of Saddam Hussein and years of war is a top priority for the Iraqi State Ministry for Tourism and Antiquities. “If you took a picture here, the guards would come down from the hill and beat you, smash your camera, and sometimes take you away,” guide Ghanum […]

 A Viking “recycling center” dating to 1066 has been discovered in York, England. Iron arrowheads and ax heads, along with evidence of metal working, were uncovered near the site of the Battle of Fulford Gate. Historian Chas Jones thinks the Norsemen were fixing their weapons after the Battle of Fulford Gate when they were called […]