Ancient Armenian cities as recorded by the Greeks and Romans
King Aram with His Child Ara the Handsome, by Rubik Kocharian, 2014 Ancient Armenian cities as recorded by the Greeks and RomansFiled under: Uncategorized
View ArticleList of heritage sites damaged during the Syrian Civil War (proxy war)
Meditation on the Destruction of Aleppo, Homs and the Syrian urban centres Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Bashar Ja’afari says the current tumult in the Middle East, including...
View ArticleThe Armenian state of kilikia
An independent Armenian Kingdom during the early second millenium, the Armenian presence in this Mediterranean coast region had a large Armenian population until the Armenian Genocide and the final...
View ArticleThe Bull of Wall Street
Charging Bull, which is sometimes referred to as the Wall Street Bull or the Bowling Green Bull, is a 3,200-kilogram (7,100 lb) bronze sculpture by Arturo Di Modica that stands in Bowling Green Park...
View ArticleAnarkisten Pjotr Aleksejevitsj Kropotkin
Fyrst Pjotr Aleksejevitsj Kropotkin (russisk: Пётр Алексеевич Кропоткин; født i Moskva i 1842, død 8. februar 1921 samme sted) var en russisk filosof og geograf, mest kjent for sin politisk-filosofiske...
View ArticlePrehistoric Dacia
“Prehistoric Dacia” by Nicolae Densusianu. This book is about the birth and evolution of European and Eastern Mediterranean civilizations and has been first published in Romania in 1913, but its...
View Article“This evil must be fought against, it must be pushed aside. We must say no to...
Pope Francis made the remark on Saturday while travelling to the hometown of a toddler murdered in a clan drug war in the southern heartland of the Italian mafia. He condemned mafia violence against...
View ArticleArmenia and Georgia
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, one of the finest statesmen in recent history, who also happens to be an Armenian. Accordingly to Lavrov was born in Tbilisi on the “Ararat street” (Araratskaya...
View ArticleSyrian Elections Observers Report to UN
The Syrian Mission to the United Nations convened a press conference featuring a group of Americans, who observed the recent Syrian presidential election first hand, reported at the United Nations on...
View ArticleArmenian clergymen are beaten in Jerusalem
On June 15, a group of Orthodox Jews beat Armenian clergy in the center of Jerusalem because the latter had cautioned them. Archbishop Aris Shirvanian, the spokesperson of the Armenian Patriarchate of...
View ArticleThe Concise Encyclopedia Of World History by Carlos Ramirez-Faria
The Concise Encyclopedia Of World History offers the global reading public, students, and professors a handy, complete, and accurate guide to all political formations since the beginning of history....
View ArticleOn the etymology of names
I just read a blog post by Golden Trail about the importance of the names of deities in the Cultus Deorum (Roman polytheism), and how nuances and other important aspects of the religion aren’t as...
View ArticleIraks krystallnatt
Krystallnatta i Irak I følge teksten Haunting: The Pillaging and Destruction of Iraq’s National Museum of Antiquities av Les Blough: ”Haunting” “In the din of the infamous war on the people of Iraq,...
View ArticleThe story of Ragnarok and the Apocalypse
In Norse mythology, Ragnarok is a series of apocalyptic events that will define the end of the world, where giants of frost and fire will together fight the gods in a final battle that will ultimately...
View ArticleThe story of Ragnarok and the Apocalypse
In Norse mythology, Ragnarok is a series of apocalyptic events that will define the end of the world, where giants of frost and fire will together fight the gods in a final battle that will ultimately...
View ArticleThe Pre-Pottery Neolithic Site of Atlit-Yam
Not far off the coast of the village of Atlit in the Mediterranean Sea, near Haifa in Israel, lies the submerged ruins of the ancient Neolithic site of Atlit Yam. The prehistoric settlement, which...
View ArticleAncient Origins
Ancient Origins seeks to uncover, what we believe, is one of the most important pieces of knowledge we can acquire as human beings – our beginnings. While many believe that we already hold such...
View ArticleAris Poulianos and the Petralona Man
- A Greek national tv documentary (English subtitles) Aris Poulianos (born on July 24, 1924, in Ikaria, North Aegean) is a Greek anthropologist and archaeologist. He earned his Ph.D in Moscow under...
View ArticleThe Birth of Europe: Colliding Continents and the Destiny of Nations
The Birth of Europe: Colliding Continents and the Destiny of Nations by Michael Alford Andrews From the first use of materials to the discovery of uranium, the history of Europe has been the legacy of...
View ArticleModern Europe’s genetic history starts in Stone Age
Europeans as a people are younger than we thought, a new study suggests. DNA recovered from ancient skeletons reveals that the genetic makeup of modern Europe was established around 4,500 B.C. in the...
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