Early example of cranial surgery identified in late Bronze Age tomb
This discovery represents the earliest example of its kind found in the ancient Near East.
Megiddo
War of Words – ‘ARMAGEDDON’
'Armageddon’ came to English, via Greek, from Hebrew har megiddo, meaning ‘mountain of Megiddo.’
Allenby: making the modern Middle East
Edward Henry Hynman Allenby was born in 1861 in Brackenhurst, Nottinghamshire in comfortable circumstances – a Victorian squire perhaps destined to help govern the British Empire on behalf of the Queen-Empress.