Austrian archaeologists found a Babylonian seal near the ancient town of Avaris, in Egypt. Irene Forstner-M üller of the Austrian Archaeological Institute says the seal confirms contact between the Babylonians and the Hyksos, who ruled Egypt between 1640 and 1530 B.C.   During the Revolutionary War, British troops razed the West Parish Meeting House in Connecticut, […]

   A mass grave that may hold the remains of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca is being exhumed at the request of relatives of the other men who may be buried there. “This country had an appalling civil war. There are 130,000 people out there still in common graves, ditches, fields, and gullies,” said historian Ian […]