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Tyrkia benekter ennå at det fant sted et folkemord
I år markeres det at det har gått 100 år siden folkemordet. Armenerne markerer massakrene hver 24. april som minnedag. Dagen da tusener av armenske ledere ble deportert og henrettet i Istanbul og som...
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Historien om eremitten Mar Mattai (St. Mattias)
Dette er et syrisk-ortodokst kloster i de nordirakiske fjellene, 35 km nordøst fra Ninive eller Mosul, og regnes som et av de eldste kristne klostre som fremdeles er i bruk. Det kalles Dayro d-Mor...
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A beautiful Armenian love story
Artaxias I, King of Armenia The invasion of the Kingdom of Armenia by the Alans during the reign of King Artashes I (189–160 BC) serves as the backdrop of the romantic tale between Artashes and...
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Graffiti art in Los Angeles dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of the...
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Strong words about the ME conflict
Richard Gere: Arabs are a burden on the world and should be annihilated. Tom Cruise: The Arabs are the source of terrorism, they don’t spare anyone without attacking them. I hope that Israel...
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The end as we know it
Eschatology “Empires do not in fact appear, rise, reign, decline, and fall according to some recurrent and predictable life cycle. It is historians who retrospectively portray the process of imperial...
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The origin of obsidian
Obsidian Obsidian is a naturally occurring volcanic glass formed as an extrusive igneous rock. It is produced when felsic lava extruded from a volcano cools rapidly with minimum crystal growth. It is...
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Stone Age site challenges old archaeological assumptions about human technology
The artifacts were discovered in 2008, after the Armenian military bulldozed a road and uncovered the ancient stone tools. Levallois and biface tools. The Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition...
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Malwiya tower in Samarra
The Samarra culture is a Chalcolithic archaeological culture in northern Mesopotamia that is roughly dated to 5500–4800 BCE. It partially overlaps with Hassuna and early Ubaid. The Ubaid period (ca....
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Hvem var ungtyrkerne?
Ungtyrkerne er den vestlige betegnelsen på den tyrkiske organisasjonen Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), som begynte som et hemmelig samfunn etablert som “Committee of Ottoman Union” i Istanbul i...
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Neolithic in the Beqaa Valley
The Beqaa Valley is a fertile valley in east Lebanon. It is Lebanon’s most important farming region. Industry also flourishes in Bekaa, especially that related to agriculture. Trihedral Neolithic is a...
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The pottery of ancient Tell Halaf of Mesopotamia and my ceramics
The love affair between me and the ancient pottery of Tell Halaf started when a friend of mine, a fellow potter and a university lecturer lent me some of his books about ancient Mesopotamia and the...
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History of Law
Code of Urukagina Fragment of an inscription of Urukagina; it reads as follows: «He [Uruinimgina] dug (…) the canal to the town-of-NINA. At its beginning, he built the Eninnu; at its ending, he built...
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Is it really anything to celebrate?
Israeli take part in Zombie Walk to celebrate Jewish Purim festival in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Feb. 23, 2013. Purim, one of Judaism’s most colorful and popular holidays, was celebrated this year between...
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The world’s oldest masks: 9,000-year-old stone ‘portraits of the dead’
Nahal Hemar is an archeological cave site in Israel, on a cliff, near the Dead Sea, just northwest of Mt. Selom. The cave was excavated in 1983 by Ofer Bar-Yosef and David Alon. The excavations here...
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Painted pottery culture
From the source of the Tigris, a tributary, the Khabur, flows northeast. Here sites such as Tell Halaf and Tell Brak, have revealed evidence of settled life from as early as the 7th millennium. The...
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Hybrid creatures in mythology
Ninurta with his thunderbolts pursues Anzû stealing the Tablets of Destiny from Enlil’s sanctuary Hybrids are mythological creatures combining body parts of more than one real species. They can be...
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Pagan myhology – Nerthus
In Norse Paganism, Njörðr, the sea god of the Norse peoples, is a god among the Vanir. Njörðr, father of the deities Freyr and Freyja by his unnamed Vanir sister, was in an ill-fated marriage with the...
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In Norse mythology, Njörun (Old Norse Njǫrun, sometimes modernly anglicized as Niorun) is a goddess attested in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, and various kennings...
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Inanna and Tammuz
Inara, in Hittite–Hurrian mythology, was the goddess of the wild animals of the steppe and daughter of the Storm-god Teshub/Tarhunt. She corresponds to the “potnia theron” of Greek mythology, better...
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