<p>Petra (Arabic: ٱلْبَتْرَاء‎, romanized: Al-Batrāʾ; Ancient Greek: Πέτρα, &#8220;Stone&#8221;), originally known to its inhabitants as Raqmu, is a historical and archaeological city in southern Jordan. Petra lies on the slope of Jabal Al-Madbah in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of the Arabah valley that runs from the Dead Sea to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Batroun (Arabic: البترون‎ al-Batrun; Aramaic: בתרון‎; Syriac script: ܒܬܪܘܢ Bitron) is a coastal city in northern Lebanon lying 50 km north of Beirut and 30 km south of Tripoli. It is the capital city of Batroun District. It has a history of human occupation going back to at least 5,000 years. It was once one [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Mary was a first-century BC Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth, and the mother of Jesus, according to the New Testament and the Quran. The gospels of Matthew and Luke in the New Testament and the Quran describe Mary as a virgin. The Catholic teaching on this subject is expressed in the papal encyclical Ad Caeli [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Christianity began as a Second Temple Judaic sect in the 1st century in the Roman province of Judea. Jesus&#8217; apostles and their followers spread around Syria, the Levant, Europe, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Transcaucasia, Egypt, and Ethiopia, despite initial persecution. Christianity developed during the 1st century CE as a Jewish Christian sect of Second Temple Judaism. An [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It was Iraq’s ‘Garden of Eden’; unique wetlands in southern Iraq where a people known as the Ma’dan, or ‘Arabs of the marsh’, lived in a Mesopotamian Venice, characterised by beautifully elaborate floating houses made entirely of reeds harvested from the open water. The Floating Basket Homes of Iraq: A Paradise Almost Lost to Saddam</p>

<p>Çukurova, alternatively known as Cilicia, is a geo-cultural region in south-central Turkey, covering the provinces of Mersin, Adana, Osmaniye and Hatay. Çukurova in Turkish means roughly &#8220;Low Plain&#8221;, çukur for &#8220;hollow, depression&#8221;, ova for &#8220;plains&#8221;. Extending inland from the southeastern coast of modern Turkey, Cilicia is due north and northeast of the island of Cyprus [&hellip;]</p>

<p>“For there were among them such innumerable horns and trumpets, which were being blown at the same time from all parts of their army, and their cries were so loud and piercing, that the noise seemed to come not from human voices and trumpets, but from the whole countryside at once”. (Polybius, Histories, II, 29) [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Shala was an ancient Sumerian goddess of grain and the emotion of compassion. The symbols of grain and compassion combine to reflect the importance of agriculture in the mythology of Sumer, and the belief that an abundant harvest was an act of compassion from the deities. She is associated with the constellation Virgo and vestiges [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The earliest known swastika is from 10,000 BCE – part of &#8220;an intricate meander pattern of joined-up swastikas&#8221; found on a late paleolithic figurine of a bird, carved from mammoth ivory, found in Mezine, Ukraine. It has been suggested that this swastika may be a stylized picture of a stork in flight. As the carving [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The aim of this article is to highlight the social and cultural developments that took place in the Southern Caucasus during the Early Bronze Age. Between 3500 and 2500 BC ca., new pottery, architectural and metallurgical traditions, known collectively as Kura-Araxes, new settlement forms in the mountain regions and new funerary customs emerged. Examining these [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Clay Token System Shulaveri-Shomu-kulturen (6000-4000 f.vt.), på territoriet til dagens Georgia, Aserbajdsjan og Armenia, så vel som små deler av Nord-Iran, er en av de tidligste kjente neolitiske kulturene. Mange av de karakteristiske egenskapene (sirkulær arkitektur, keramikk dekorert med plastisk design, antropomorfe kvinnelige figurer, obsidian industri med vekt på produksjon av lange prismatiske blader) antas [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Exclusive: Royal Burial in Ancient Canaan May Shed New Light on Biblical City Tel Megiddo (Arabic: Tell al-Mutesellim, lit. &#8220;Tell of the Governor&#8221;; Greek: Armageddon) is the site of the ancient city of Megiddo whose remains form a tell (archaeological mound), situated in northern Israel near Kibbutz Megiddo, about 30 km south-east of Haifa. Megiddo [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Hurrians and Subarians by Ignace J. Gelb &#8211; The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization</p>

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<p>Sennacherib Nineveh (Akkadian: URUNI.NU.A Ninua‎) was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located on the eastern bank of the Tigris River on the outskirts of Mosul in modern-day northern Iraq. Today it is a common name for the half of Mosul that lies on the eastern bank of the Tigris and the Nineveh Governorate [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Reality show star Kourtney Kardashian posted a photo of pakhlava (baklava), one of the most famous and exquisite dishes of Armenian cuisine, on her Instagram page.&#8221;Homemade Armenian Pakhlava&#8221;, wrote Kourtney Kardashian. According to Ermenihaber, this post has angered Turk users. They wrote various comments under the photo. Here are some of the comments: &#8220;Pakhlava is [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Scientists find that tin found in Israel from 3,000 years ago comes from Cornwall. Tin ingots from more than 3,000 years ago found in Israel are actually from Cornwall, a ceremonial county in South West England. It proves that complex trade routes existed as far back as the Bronze Age. According to John T. Koch [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Reisebrev Beklager at det har tatt lang tid å skrive dette nyhetsbrevet. Når det kommer til mytologi og historie så klarer jeg ikke å stanse, men fortsetter kun. Uansett har jeg inkludert disse skriveriene her, da det er langt mer enn nok slik det er. Uansett så er jeg for lengst tilbake til Jerevan.  Her [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Nina &#8211; Anne / Anna Nina, Nína and Niná are feminine given names with various origins. These names serve as a short form of names ending in “-nina / -nine”, including Marina, Katharina, Antonina, Giannina, and Constantina. Nina and its international variants also serve as a short form of Anna, especially the Russian name Anninka. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>&nbsp; World&#8217;s first temple? Mardin The territory of Mardin and Karaca Dağ was known as Izalla in the Bronze Age and originally part of a Hurrian (Armenian) kingdom. The Hurrians were a people of the Bronze Age Near East. They spoke a Hurro-Urartian language called Hurrian and lived in Anatolia and Northern Mesopotamia. The Elamites [&hellip;]</p>