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Pre History of Europe
Epipaleolithic Europe Epipaleolithic Europe Around 17,000 BCE, Europe witnesses the appearance of a new culture, known as Magdalenian, possibly rooted in the old Aurignacian one. This culture soon...
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In these revolutionary times
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97) was a proto-feminist philosopher, novelist and historian of the French revolution. Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an eighteenth-century...
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The story of Prometheus / Amirani
Gibil in Sumerian mythology is the god of fire, variously of the son of An and Ki, An and Shala or of Ishkur and Shala. He later developed into the Akkadian god Gerra, the Babylonian and Akkadian god...
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Lord Byron and Armenia
Lord Byron in Albanian dress painted by Thomas Phillips in 1813 This painting can be viewed at the Venizelos Mansion, which is the British Ambassador’s residence in Athens. Lord Byron lived in Italy,...
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“Stop the destruction of Syrian cultural heritage!” urges UNESCO...
- - - - - - 6 major players who turned Syria into a proxy war nightmare Report on Syria – Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire: “The Syrian State is Under a Proxy War Led by Foreign Countries” Nobel...
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Sumerian Goddesses
Tiamat is the Babylonian Goddess of the primeval saltwater sea. In the beginning there was only Tiamat and Apsu, God of the freshwater. Tiamat surrounded Apsu, and their waters mingled to produce...
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Peace Painting
Peace Painting We believe that peace begins in the individual’s heart. A place is found there which desires peace – we want to help this to grow. Every time we look at each other with real respect,...
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Noah – Official Trailer
- Noah – Official Trailer Russell Crowe, Emma WatsonFiled under: Uncategorized
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Stand up for Hagia Sophia!
- - Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç has expressed his hope to see Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia Museum be used as a mosque, while already calling it the “Hagia Sophia Mosque” while speaking to reporters....
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Ostracism – informal exclusion / social rejection
Ostracism Ostracism (Greek: ὀστρακισμός, ostrakismos) was a procedure under the Athenian democracy in which any citizen could be expelled from the city-state of Athens for ten years. While some...
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What Colombia’s Kogi people can teach us about the environment
The Kogi people are warning society of destruction we face if we fail to embrace nature - - - What Colombia’s Kogi people can teach us about the environment The Kogi of Colombia – Lost Tribe of...
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Save Yasuní, the Last Wonder of the Amazon!
In June 2007, the Ecuadorian government launched the Yasuní-ITT initiative, a revolutionary proposal that aimed to leave 920 million barrels of oil in the ground. The initiative sought to preserve the...
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The Yazidis and the Conflict in Syria
The Yazidis The Yazidi are a Kurdish-speaking people, and their cultural practices are observably Kurdish. Almost all speak Kurmanjî (Northern Kurdish), with the exception of the villages of Bashiqa...
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The Kurds in Syria
Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in Syria and make up nine percent of the population of 25 million people of Syria or 2.2 million in Syria. The Kurdish population in Syria is relatively small in...
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Catholicos Karekin II becomes head of World Council of Churches
The delegates to the 10th General Assembly of the World Council of Churches that took place in Busan, South Korea, on November 4, unanimously elected Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II, the...
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Origin and Spread of mtDNA Haplogroup N
All mtDNA haplogroups found outside of Africa are descendants of either haplogroup N or its sibling haplogroup M. M and N are the signature haplogroups that define the out of Africa migration and the...
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Haplogroup R1b, with focus on R1b1a2 (the most common form in Europe) and R1b1a1
R1b is a sub-clade within the much larger Eurasian MNOPS “macro-haplogroup”, which is one of the predominant groupings of all the rest of human male lines outside of Africa, and this whole group, along...
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Ugrians and the Bashkirs
Baskirs: The Bashkirs is a Kipchak group formed in the early medieval period in the context of the Turkic migrations. They speak the Bashkir language, pertaining to Kypchak branch of the Turkic...
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The Early History of Indo-European Languages by Thomas V. Gamkrelidze and V....
Linguistics, the scientific study of language, can reach more deeply into the human past than the most ancient written records. It compares related languages to reconstruct their immediate progenitors...
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