<p>“Minoans, Mycenaeans, and modern Greeks also had some ancestry related to the ancient people of the Caucasus, Armenia, and Iran,” said co-lead author Dr. Iosif Lazaridis, a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard Medical School. The Minoan civilization was an Aegean Bronze Age civilization on the island of Crete and other Aegean Islands which flourished from about [&hellip;]</p>

<p>&#8220;Pour toi Arménie&#8221; (English Translation: &#8220;For You, Armenia&#8221;) is a 1989 song written and composed by Charles Aznavour, and recorded by a group of French singers (and also a few actors and TV presenters) who were popular at the time. The charity single was intended to raise funds to help the Armenians who experienced the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Mens Tyskland har forsonet seg med jødene har ikke tyrkerne gjort det samme når det kommer til armenerne. Det er faktisk ulovlig å påstå at det i det hele foregikk et folkemord på den armenske befolkningen. Tyrkia anerkjenner ikke hendelsen som folkemord, og tyrkiske borgere som offentlig hevder det motsatte kan risikere å bli straffeforfulgt [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Argo var i gresk mytologi et skip som Jason og argonautene, som vil si noen av de fremste heltene i det gamle Hellas, seilte i fra Iolcos til Kolkis i sin leten etter det gyldne skinn. Skinnet er i gresk mytologi skinnet til en gullhåret og bevinget bukk i Kolkhis, Kaukasus. Skinnet er et symbol [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In Sumerian literature Aratta is described as a fabulously wealthy place full of gold, silver, lapis lazuli and other precious materials, as well as the artisans to craft them. It is a land that appears in Sumerian myths surrounding Enmerkar and Lugalbanda, two early and possibly mythical kings of Uruk also mentioned on the Sumerian [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Throughout the ancient world and even for us today the concepts of Justice such as democracy, freedom and equality have always been female. To this day Lady Justice (Latin: Iustitia) stands in front of courtrooms, while her sister Libertas, the Goddess of Freedom, continues to hold the torch as the famous Statue of Liberty. Dingir [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The oldest existing, continually operating and first degree awarding educational institution in the world according to UNESCO and Guinness World Records is the University of al-Qarawiyyin or Karueein, founded in 859 AD in Fez, Morocco. The University of Bologna, Italy, was founded in 1088 and is the oldest one in Europe. The Sumerians had scribal [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Anu or An is the divine personification of the sky, supreme God, and ancestor of all the deities in ancient Mesopotamian religion. Anu was believed to be the supreme source of all authority, for the other gods and for all mortal rulers, and he is described in one text as the one &#8220;who contains the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Tyr and Hel In Germanic mythology, Týr (Old Norse), Tíw (Old English), and Ziu (Old High German) is a god. Stemming from the Proto-Germanic deity *Tīwaz and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European deity *Dyeus, little information about the god survives beyond Old Norse sources. Outside of its application as a theonym, the Old Norse common noun [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Shulaveri-Shomu culture is a Late Neolithic/Eneolithic culture that existed on the territory of present-day Georgia, Azerbaijan and the Armenian Highlands. The culture is dated to mid-6th or early-5th millennia BC and is thought to be one of the earliest known Neolithic cultures. The earliest evidence of domesticated grapes in the world has been found in [&hellip;]</p>

Sennacherib (reigned 705-681 BCE) was the second king of the Sargonid Dynasty of Assyria (founded by his father Sargon II). He is one of...

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<p>Order the astonishing book &#8220;Hayastan &#8211; Why I Love Armenia&#8221; by Sven-Erik Rise today! Hayastan &#8211; Why I Love Armenia &#8220;When an honest-to-goodness Activist for Armenia, Armenian by Choice, and Guy-Who-Left-His-Heart-in-Armenia writes a book about his overriding passion, it becomes nearly impossible to stay within the confines of traditional literary genres. The content and message of [&hellip;]</p>

The Amorites were a Semitic people who seem to have emerged from western Mesopotamia (modern day Syria) at some point prior to the 3rd...

A fragment of an alabster bas-relief which depicts an Elamite archer (in a war scene?). This is an enemy of Assyria. He is identified by...

Susa is one of the oldest cities in the world. Excavations have uncovered evidence of continual habitation dating back to 4200 BCE. Susa...

The Atrahasis is the Akkadian/Babylonian epic of the Great Flood sent by the gods to destroy human life. Only the good man, Atrahasis...

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