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Kur and the Sumerian Underworld, Anunnaki Origins Podcast 011
Anunnaki Origins Podcast, Anunnaki Odyssey, Hidden History of the Sumerians #sumeriangods #anunnaki #anunnakis Beneath the earth lies...

Ryan Moorhen
Sep 151 min read
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The IE Homeland – In the Northern part of the Near East
<p>The problem of the initial place from which the original Indo-European dialects spread over Eurasia has been studied by several generations of scholars. Few alternative points of view have been proposed: first an area near the North Sea (in the works of some scholars of the border of the 19th and 20th centuries), then the […]</p>

Ryan Moorhen
Nov 7, 20138 min read
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Haplogroup T – An ancient Near East haplogroup
<p>Haplogroup T originated at least 30,000 years ago, making it one of the oldest haplogroups found in Eurasia, which may explain its vast dispersal around Africa and South Asia. It also makes its place of origin uncertain. T is descended from haplogroup K, the ancestor of most of the Eurasian haplogroups (L, N, O, P, […]</p>

Ryan Moorhen
Nov 4, 20135 min read
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Euphratic – A phonological sketch
<p>There is an interesting monograph by Fournet & Bomhard on the Indo-European Elements in Hurrian (pdf). I will leave the linguistic details to the experts, as I doubt that many people are competent in both Proto-Indo-European and Hurrian to assess the authors’ thesis. However, this is the bit that captured my attention: Hurrian cannot be […]</p>

Ryan Moorhen
Oct 29, 20135 min read
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Ancient DNA and Sumerians
<p>There has been assumed that there prior to the rise of expansive civilizations (Sargon of Akkad) was much more linguistic and ethnic diversity than we currently see around us. Or, was evident even in the early Iron Age. In other words, the ancient Fertile Crescent may have resembled the highlands of Papua, with Hurrians, Akkadians, […]</p>

Ryan Moorhen
Oct 28, 20138 min read
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The Sun God
<p>Solar deity List of solar deities Winged sun Solar calendar Solar symbol – Lunar deity A solar deity (also sun god/dess) is a sky deity who represents the Sun, or an aspect of it, usually by its perceived power and strength. Solar deities and sun worship can be found throughout most of recorded history in […]</p>

Ryan Moorhen
Oct 24, 20138 min read
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Ancient DNA from European Early Neolithic Farmers Reveals Their Near Eastern Affinities
<p>The transition from a hunter–gatherer existence to a sedentary farming-based lifestyle has had key consequences for human groups around the world and has profoundly shaped human societies. Originating in the Near East around 11,000 y ago, an agricultural lifestyle subsequently spread across Europe during the New Stone Age (Neolithic). Whether it was mediated by incoming […]</p>

Ryan Moorhen
Oct 23, 20132 min read
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Ancient Felines and the Great-Goddess in Anatolia: Kubaba and Cybele
<p>This paper discusses forms of a female figure accompanied by felines, as sheevolved in prehistoric and early historic Anatolia; her movements throughoutAsia Minor; her transmission to Greece and Rome; and her worship thencethroughout the ancient world. It also addresses the controversy of how andwhether the Phrygian and later Greco-Roman goddess Cybele is connected to theAnatolian […]</p>

Ryan Moorhen
Oct 22, 20131 min read
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The Root of Our Civilization
<p>There seems to be a different major haplogroup to be prevalent in each of four sets of populations that occupy distinct geographic regions and belong to different linguistic branches of the North Caucasian family spoken by the Caucasus populations. The haplogroup frequencies correlated with geography and, even more strongly, with language. Within haplogroups, a number […]</p>

Ryan Moorhen
Oct 19, 201334 min read
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Distribution maps of autosomal admixtures in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa
<p>The following maps were created based on the K=12 admixtures from the Dodecad Project, except the Gedrosian and Caucasian maps, which are based on the K=12b admixtures, and the Red Sea map, which is based on the K=10a admixtures. The ‘West European’ admixture from Dodecad was renamed ‘Northwest European’ on Eupedia, as it fits better the overall […]</p>

Ryan Moorhen
Oct 19, 20131 min read
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Diversity of Major Cultivated Plants Domesticated in the Near East
<p>Our fathers planted gardens long ago… Whose fruits we reap with joy today; Their labor constitutes a debt we owe… Which to our heirs we must repay; For all crops sown in any land… Are destined for a future man. Arab Poet – Nizami Introduction Alexander von Humboldt was probably the first author to refer […]</p>

Ryan Moorhen
Oct 18, 20133 min read
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Aram & Arameans
<p>In the early stages of critical historiography in 19th century, the idea was advanced that the terms Arma or Aram, and Arime or Arme are Semitic and pertain to the Semites. I. Diakonoff, makes the supposition tha the name Armina ( Armini-Armeni) is given to Armenian and the Armenians because of their neighborhood to the […]</p>

Ryan Moorhen
Sep 25, 20132 min read
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Labrys – The Symmetric Doubleheaded Axe
<p>The axe (or ax) is an implement that has been used for millennia to shape, split and cut wood; to harvest timber; as a weapon; and as a ceremonial or heraldic symbol. The axe has many forms and specialised uses but generally consists of an axe head with a handle, or helve. Before the modern […]</p>

Ryan Moorhen
Sep 14, 201317 min read
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The Indo-European and Ancient Near Eastern Sources of the Armenian Epic
<p>The Indo-European and Ancient Near Eastern Sources of the Armenian Epic</p>

Ryan Moorhen
Sep 14, 20131 min read
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Göbekli Tepe – National Geographic Channel
<p>Turkey presents Armenian Portasar to the world as a Turkish Stonehenge Portasar is a great ritualistic-religious-scientific building, which is situated in the Western Armenia and has 18,500-years-old history. Vachagan Vahradyan, candidate of biological sciences, adviser and chief scientist to the Armenian scientific party of Oxford University’s ‘Stones and Stars’ project, said at today’s meeting with journalists that […]</p>

Ryan Moorhen
Sep 13, 20131 min read
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Samarra culture, Tell Halaf and Tell Ubaid
<p>The Fertile Crescent is a term for an old fertile area north, east and west of the Arabian Desert in Southwest Asia. The Mesopotamian valley and the Nile valley fall under this term even though the mountain zone around Mesopotamia is the natural zone for the transition in a historical sense. As a result of […]</p>

Ryan Moorhen
Aug 9, 201315 min read
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Hurrians, Hebrews and Armenians
<p>According to classical rabbinical literature, the Jebusites derived their name from the city of Jebus, the ancient Jerusalem, which they inhabited. These rabbinical sources also argued that as part of the price of Abraham’s purchase of the Cave of Machpelah, which lay in the territory of the Jebusites, the Jebusites made Abraham grant them a […]</p>

Ryan Moorhen
Aug 8, 201312 min read
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