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Explaining the Fall of the Great Akkadian Empire
... was a powerful ruler who united the city states of Sumer. It is also known that once Sargon came to power, he ... which was a symbolic gesture to show that the whole of Sumer was now under his rule. The conquest of southern ...
dhwty - 10/01/2021 - 23:49
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Lilith: Ancient Demon, Dark Deity or Sensual Goddess?
Lilith, an ancient mythological figure and one of the oldest known female spirits in the world, has embodied various roles across cultures. In some sources she has been described as a demon, while in others she was revered as an icon who morphed to become one of the darkest deities of the pagans. While her roots can be found within the famous Epic of Gilgamesh, she was also described within both the Bible and the Talmud.
Natalia Klimczak - 03/03/2024 - 21:54
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4,000-Year-Old Mesopotamian City Discovered In the Shadow Of Ur
... alone, which is a recognized “cradle of civilization.” Sumer: Where Written Language, Arithmetic and Civilization ...
ashley cowie - 16/07/2021 - 14:55
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Ninurta: God of War and Agriculture
... originally emerged as an agricultural deity in ancient Sumer . As Mesopotamia became more militarized, he also ...
Caleb Strom - 27/10/2018 - 18:52
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Goddess Ninkharsag—Ancient Powerful Mother who Faded into The Holy Ghost
... or Egypt, and Enlil, who had moved his power base from Sumer to what we know today as Jerusalem. All three were old ...
Katrina Sisowath - 13/05/2021 - 03:56
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First Kingdoms: The Forgotten Mesopotamian Kingdom of Ebla
... of the Akkadian Empire Found in Iraq The Rise and Fall of Sumer and Akkad 5 Pyramids of the Ancient World that You May ...
ancient-origins - 21/05/2019 - 19:05
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Antarctica's Ancient Origins Update – Part Two: Did Early Voyagers Leave Evidence?
Tracing a Possible Route for the Voyagers
Sailing southwards along the eastern seaboards of Australia and Tasmania, the voyagers would round the east coast of Antarctica and, initially, enter the continent via the Ross Sea anchorage. However, the map below shows Marambio and Nelson Islands lie on the Antarctic Peninsula directly opposite the Ross Sea region.
William James Veall - 08/06/2018 - 01:55
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Babylon’s Temple of Ninmakh, the Mesopotamian Goddess of Humankind
One of the great temples constructed during the Neo-Babylonian period (626-539 BC), the golden age of the city of Babylon, was the Temple of Ninmakh. The temple was built adjacent to the famous Processional Way and the Ishtar Gate, the main gate that led into the city of Babylon, and stood as a testament to divine reverence and architectural mastery.
Caleb Strom - 02/03/2024 - 17:17
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Perseus, The Greek Variant Of Sumerian Gilgamesh
Perseus is one of the greatest heroes of Greek tradition, venerated as a demigod. But is Perseus really of Greek origin or was his legend brought from elsewhere to Greece? According to the Greek father of history Herodotus in his The Histories (6.54), the Persians maintained that “Perseus was an Assyrian who adopted Greek nationality”.
Willem McLoud - 04/12/2023 - 20:38
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From Sumerian Gods to Modern Day: The Long History of Slavery and Lost Children
The recent film Sound of Freedom is a fictionalized account of the true story of Tim Ballard, a former US Department of Homeland Security agent who founded the nonprofit organization Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.). O.U.R. works with law enforcement to rescue children from sex trafficking and sexual exploitation.
beth - 22/09/2023 - 15:00
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Horses, Cows and Celestial Creatures at the Dawn of Civilizations
... with the culture of the Nile, were those of the Euphrates; Sumer and Babylon, circa 4500 BC-1900 BC and 2300 BC-1000 AD ... a significant role at all. Of the hundreds of deities of Sumer and Babylon, the horse goddess, Silili, is mentioned ... demonstrated that the Indus civilization pre-dated that of Sumer and that the Sumerian had grown out of the Harappan . ...
Steven Keith - 27/05/2018 - 23:01
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The Secret of Gobekli Tepe: Cosmic Equinox and Sacred Marriage - Part 1
... there was no civilization as we know it, as there was in Sumer or Egypt. The discovery of Göbeklitepe caused a ... influential role in the subsequent civilizations, just as Sumer and Egypt had [8]. Could the origins of Sumerian and ... ”, 1994. [2] Çığ, M. İ., “ İnanna'nın Aşkı: Sumer'de İnanç ve Kutsal Evlenme ”, 9th ed., Istanbul, ...
Ozgur - 04/04/2015 - 03:40
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The Man Who Wished to Own the World – Eannatum: The First Conqueror? Part II
... true threat came from the north. The ancient cities of Sumer. ( CC BY 3.0 ) Pushing into the North – Zuzu Fights Back After the southern portion of Sumer was conquered, Eannatum began his march north. His ... of Warka’, marble head from Uruk, ancient city of Sumer ( Public Domain ) and battle formations on a fragment ...
Cam Rea - 08/03/2017 - 15:30
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The Dilmun Civilization: An Important Location for Ancient Mythology and Trade
... to whom they are allotted. Pure is Dilmun land. Pure is Sumer -- and you are the ones to whom it is allotted. Pure ...
dhwty - 25/10/2015 - 23:52
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The Dispilio Tablet and the Real Origins of Writing
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Ancient Mesopotamia and the Rise of Civilization
In ancient times, Mesopotamia, meaning ‘land between two rivers’, was a vast region that lay between the Tigris and Euphrates river systems, and it is where civilization emerged over 7,000 years ago. The first inhabitants, the Sumerians, established an advanced system writing, spectacular arts and architecture, astronomy and mathematics. The Akkadians would follow the Sumerians, borrowing from their culture, producing a new language of their own, and creating the world’s first empire.
Sarah P Young - 14/01/2021 - 23:08
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Is There a Natural Explanation For The Unnatural Ages in Genesis?
Is there any significance to the puzzling ages of the antediluvian patriarchs in the fifth chapter of Genesis? And why do these numbers differ between the Masoretic text and the Septuagint?
These questions occupied the Swedish 19th century novelist, journalist, scholar and later member of parliament, Viktor Rydberg during the late 1860s.
Nils Ekblad - 12/08/2017 - 19:03
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East African Invasions in South America: Tracing Cultural Clues and Artifacts Left by Early Travelers
Archaeologists have found many artifacts that suggest Blacks lived in Pre-Columbian America in locations including Tiahuanaco and Valdivia. Epigraphers and archaeologists have even found evidence that Axumites, Meroites, and Puntites may have voyaged to South America before Columbus.
Clyde Winters - 20/07/2017 - 19:09
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Selling Sex: Wonder Woman and the Ancient Fantasy of Lady Warriors That Goes Back Millennia
When the film Wonder Woman is released in early June, it will surely join the blockbuster ranks of other recent comic book-inspired film franchises.
ancient-origins - 30/05/2017 - 14:00
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The Serpent Priestesses and Ancient Sexual Rites
... reproduction of a Sumerian sculpture. Public Domain From Sumer to Cambodia Kings enacted a ritual visitation with a ...
Katrina Sisowath - 23/12/2014 - 22:07