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... where I learned the scribal art from the tablets of Sumer and Akkad. None of the nobles could write on clay as I ...
Carly Silver - 11/03/2019 - 14:00
“Prophecy is an emanation sent forth by the Divine Being through the medium of the Active Intellect, in the first instance to man's rational faculty, and then to his imaginative faculty.” - Maimonides, Medieval philosopher
Mary Mount - 21/05/2021 - 14:58
Myths, legends, and religions tell of gods and goddesses exemplifying all that is good and right in the world. And there are just as many who represent our deepest archetypal sexual desires, taboos, and dreams of ecstasy. Within myths, while it is most often male gods who pay the price for having strayed, supernatural women are almost always to blame for having led them astray.
ashley cowie - 12/12/2018 - 23:01
Following work which began in the 1970s and spanned nearly 40 years, Peter Harris and Norman Stockdale identified a “new” unit of length in 2015. They called it the Harris and Stockdale Megalithic Foot, or the HSMF for short, to distinguish it from other similar lengths. It is 14.142 inches (35.92 cm) or 1.1785 feet (35.92 cm), the length of the diagonal of a 10-inch (25.4 cm) square.
ancient-origins - 27/02/2022 - 14:00
The vajra is the most important ritual implement of Vajrayana Buddhism. In Sanskrit, the word vajra is defined as something hard or mighty, as in a diamond. It symbolizes an impenetrable, immovable and indestructible state of knowledge and enlightenment.
Rita Louise - 24/07/2017 - 18:56
Alberto Nadgar Rojas, researcher, visual artist, and photographer, defends the existence in northern Chile of an ancient civilization of giants as a hypothesis to explain what may be the biggest geoglyphs in the world. He explained to Ancient Origins that some geoglyphs are atypical because they contain many designs and predominantly geometric forms, in comparison to the classical anthropomorphic geoglyphs of the Inca culture.
ancient-origins - 25/05/2016 - 03:49
... roots to ancient African, Egyptian and Sumerian tribes. Sumer was a part of ancient Mesopotamia. “The oldest proven ...
Mark Miller - 29/06/2016 - 21:41
... had a fundamental role in the early urbanization of the Sumer civilization, in the mid-4th millennium BC. It also ...
Aleksa Vučković - 09/09/2023 - 14:26
The Royal Road of the King of the World is a 20-degree band around the Earth that has 30 degrees north latitude as its center. This band is not, technically, the geographical center of the Earth, which is marked by the equator. But when the square miles of land south of 30 degrees’ north latitude are counted together (not including the Arctic or Antarctica), and the square miles of land north of 30 degrees north latitude are similarly tabulated, both equal approximately 26 million square miles.
MarkPinkham - 14/01/2016 - 03:42
A super-powerful animal known as the ‘kunga’ was the first-known human-engineered hybrid of two animal species, reports a new study published in Science Advances. The researchers conducted a genome-sequencing study on equine skeletons found at a 4,500-year-old burial site at Umm el-Marra in northern Syria.
Sahir - 15/01/2022 - 13:54
Was there once a Universal World Culture? A researcher in Hawaii, Dr. Vomos-Toth Bator argued there was such a culture, and he presented over 1,000,000 place names from around the world to prove his point.
Clyde Winters - 13/10/2016 - 21:53
A musician may have strummed its strings all the way back in the 3rd millennium BC. This means that the Bull’s Lyre, aka the Golden Lyre of Ur, is one of the oldest string instruments in the world. It also provides us with a glimpse of the way the ancient Mesopotamians viewed the world, thanks to the outstanding iconography present on the musical instrument.
dhwty - 30/06/2018 - 01:59
Ancient Origins asked experts to weigh in on the topic of ancient deities. Some ancient gods get all the attention - but which gods are largely forgotten… and why? The following is their views on individual gods that have largely been forgotten and/or which gods they believed were the most significant of the cultures they ruled over. Some of their answers may surprise you!
ancient-origins - 03/08/2016 - 14:52
... and the Nephilim In the Beginning Gilgamesh ruled in Sumer, in the city of Uruk, for 127 earth years, and is the ... a demi god, fifth in the line of kings, ruler of Sumer, in the city of Uruk, would take out his frustrations ... ) It was given to Shamhat, a priestess in the temple at Sumer, to enlighten Enkidu of his humanity, and bring him to ...
Gordon Board - 19/05/2019 - 14:09
What is believed to be the world’s oldest depiction of a ghost has recently been found on a Babylonian tablet, neglected in the vaults of the British Museum in London since its acquisition in the 19th century.
Sahir - 18/10/2021 - 18:52
Hippocrates describes many operations of the brain during ancient Greek times. However, it is one thing to have something written and another thing to find concrete evidence that proves that such operations actually took place.
johnblack - 27/09/2013 - 13:33
Ancient civilizations look ever-more advanced with each passing year as new discoveries continue to showcase just how sophisticated they truly were.
ancient-origins - 19/01/2018 - 18:57
The ancient, far reaching civilizations of the world are for many people a continuous source of inspiration. Ancient, ageless myths and wonders of emerging societies and archaic technologies are not only extraordinary – but often baffling as well. From the megalithic structures of Neolithic Europe, to the mysterious Easter Island statues, all the way to the ancient Egypt – the achievements of ancient man are often difficult to fully grasp.
Aleksa Vučković - 12/07/2020 - 14:04
Using remote sensing data technologies at the site of one of the oldest urban centers in world history, scientists have identified a vast Mesopotamian settlement called Lagash. Once upon a time, Lagash consisted of four marsh islands interconnected by waterways. A flourishing, watery lifestyle existed almost 5,000 years ago, in this ancient wetland area located between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in southern Iraq.
Sahir - 15/10/2022 - 14:53