Over the past 150 years, Jerusalem has become one of the most excavated and archaeologised (if there is such a word) cities in the world, and with good reason. The city is holy to three of the world’s faiths – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – and is famous not only as the place where Jesus died, but also where King David…
Update (25 October): We’re sorry to announce that the new Questions of our Times webinar series, due to take place in November, has been postponed due to circumstances beyond our control. We hope to be able to find new dates for the webinars in the spring of 2022, and we’ll post again when we have […]
The second series of Questions of our Times, our five webinar evenings which begin on 2 November, is hosted by Major Nigel Bovey, a Salvation Army officer, journalist, and musician. He will be asking our guests his own questions, plus the questions of the audience, so we thought we’d turn the tables and ask him […]
A farmer digging his land near Ismailia, a city next to the Suez Canal in northeastern Egypt, has recently unearthed a stele (a monumental stone) from the reign of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. The stele, which would stand 2.3 metres tall when raised, and which is 2,600 years old, is thought to record the military […]
