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Woven carpets in Cappadocia
Turkish carpets and rugs, whether hand knotted or flat woven (Kilim, Soumak, Cicim, Zili), are among the most well known and established hand crafted art works in the world. Historically: religious,...
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Ankara
BILDER – ANKARA BILDER – FORT BILDER – Museum of Anatolian Civilizations Lonely Planet review for Museum of Anatolian Civilisations Ankara Museum of Anatolian Civilizations Photo Gallery The Museum of...
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Gordium – the capital city of ancient Phrygia
BILDER: Gordium – the capital city of ancient Phrygia The Mushki were an Iron Age people of Anatolia, known from Assyrian sources. They do not appear in Hittite records. Several authors have connected...
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Troya
BILDER: Troya Troja (gr. Τροία, Troia, også Ἴλιον, Ilion, lat. Troia, Ilium, Tyrkisk: Truva) er en legendarisk by i landskapet Troas i det nordvestlige Lilleasia og stedet for trojanerkrigen.I dag er...
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A History of Armenia by Vahan M. Kurkjian
When I became interested in Armenia, mostly because of my focus on Antiquity, I discovered there was not that much historical and antiquarian material online about the country, so this is my first...
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På tur over dardanellene
BILDER: På tur over dardanellene BILDER: Dardanos tumuli Dardanellene (tyrkisk: Çanakkale Boğazı), tidligere Hellespont, er et smalt strede nordvest i Tyrkia som forbinder Egeerhavet med Marmarahavet....
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I Istanbul, Tyrkia
8 BILDER: Istanbul, Tyrkia Her er er jeg – i Istanbul, også kjent som Konstantinopel. Byen min familie, min fars far far osv. osv. kom fra. Dette etter en kjøretur på 6 timer fra Çanakkale og langs...
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Min dag i Istanbul
BILDER: Min dag i Istanbul BILDER: Istanbul arkeologiske museum BILDER: Istanbul arkeologiske museum – Keramikk Sitter her på flyet fra Istanbul, og legger ut de siste bildene jeg har tatt – fra...
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From the Canaries to Armenia
Genetic evidence shows that northern African peoples (possibly descendants of the Capsian culture) made a significant contribution to the aboriginal population of the Canaries following...
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Hurrians, Hebrews and Armenians
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...
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Samarra culture, Tell Halaf and Tell Ubaid
The Halaf culture, is a prehistoric period which lasted between about 6100 and 5500 BCE. The period is a continuous development out of the earlier Pottery Neolithic and is located primarily in...
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History of the Bull in Mythology
Aurochs are depicted in many Paleolithic European cave paintings such as those found at Lascaux and Livernon in France. Their life force may have been thought to have magical qualities, for early...
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Nane – the Armenian pagan mother goddess
Painting of Goddess Nane by Rubik Kocharian Nane (Armenian: Nanė; Georgian: Nana; Bulgarian: Nanė; Russian: Nanė) was an Armenian pagan mother goddess. She was the goddess of war, wisdom, and...
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Place and Tribe Names Composed With ‘Ar’
The Syrian chronicler Mar-Aba has copied an important portion of his book from the Greek translation of an ancient Chaldaean source. Khorenatsi, in his turn, drawing from Mar-Aba, transmits to us a...
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The Urartian/Araratian pantheon was headed by Haldi, Teiseba, and Siwini, who formed the most powerful triad in Urartian/Araratian mythology. Haldi was a deity of fire and volcano; he symbolized the...
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The Armenian deity of the sun and fire
The most ancient and principal national deity of the Armenian people was the deity of the sun and fire. As time progressed, however, this great deity was divided in two, just as it had occurred in...
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Again on Neolithic and European Y-DNA
Again on Neolithic and European Y-DNA Specially on why R1b1b2a1 (the bulk of Y-DNA R1b and the Western European specific subclade) cannot be Neolithic. It comes up in all discussions and I really feel...
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Jews, and their history
History of Zionism Zionism as an organized movement is generally considered to have been fathered by Theodor Herzl in 1897; however the history of Zionism began earlier and related to Judaism and...
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Ice Age Swastika found in Mezine, Ukraine
Ivory bracelets – Mezine The world’s oldest swastika is this one here associated with these carvings in the shape of birds found in the Mezine, Ukraine region, dated to about 10,000 BCE. The bird...
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Doggerland – Exploring the submerged landscapes of Prehistoric North Sea
‘Britain’s Atlantis’ – a hidden underwater world swallowed by the North Sea – has been discovered by divers working with science teams from the University of St Andrews. Doggerland, a huge area of dry...
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