The Bronze Age

by Monique Barb - The peoples of the Middle East were using metals at a time when our ancestors were using flint and stone. But in time the idea of using metals spread from the Middle East to Europe and eventually to Britain. The first metal users to settle in this country were the Beaker people. They knew how to use copper and bronze and made daggers and axes from these metals. The Beaker...

Surreal Dubai

It has been called “the Vegas of The Middle East” or the “New Mecca”, but goes way, way beyond that: by 2010, if all goes according to plan, it may well be the greatest city on Earth. It may already be. Dubai is in the United Arab Emirates, on the Arabian Peninsula, one hundred miles across the Gulf from Iran, about 600 miles from Basra, 1.100 from Kabul. Dubai is quite possibly the safest great...