ancient cultures

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Digging Up the Past

How were the people of the past similar to us? What changed over the course of time and what remained the same? These sorts of questions are

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History of Beer: A Syrian mercenary of the Egyptian royal guard drinking beer with a straw. Credit: Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz. An article

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Death on a Pale Horse, personified by William Blake c. 1800, conjures up images of plague, pestilence, and famine of apocalyptic proportions.Credit:

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Large vessel with war chariots from Greece (c. 1350 B.C.E).Credit: Peter Fischer, Teresa Bürge Our modern world is defined by global trade and

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Is humanity innately attracted to war and conflict or could there be other influences of non-human origin? According to one researcher, a secretive

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Three Phoenician statues found at Shavei Zion representing pregnant women. Credit: Jonathan J. Gottlieb For millennia, an ancient graveyard lay

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“Behemoth and Leviathan,” 1825, from The Book of Job by William Blake, courtesy of the National Gallery of Art. Licensed under CC0 1.0 Monsters

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Image of a mass grave at Sidon: a) Burial 110, layer 8, looking east.Credit: Mikulski RNR, Schutkowski H, Smith MJ, Doumet-Serhal C, Mitchell PD

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Ruins of the outer wall and the “Damascus Gate” at Ebla. Ebla was an important trading empire throughout the 3rd millennium B.C.E. until it was

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The Kincaid Mounds is an ancient tribal centre of the Mississippian culture that built a large settlement comprising of raised mounds, in the

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The Kingdom of Cush, Egypt’s neighbor to the south, played an important role in biblical history despite being one of the lesser known kingdoms.

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“… For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.” —1 Corinthians 10:4 A WALKING ROCK IN THE DESERT. A

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In addition to its symbolism for the Holy Spirit, the dove was a popular Christian symbol before the cross rose to prominence in the fourth century.

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Hershel Shanks Amihai Mazar (better known as Ami) is one of Israel’s most highly regarded archaeologists. He recently retired from the Hebrew

10 min read 2020-12-11 20:42:44

Does this ancient menorah graffito show us what the Temple menorah looked like? The Jewish menorah—especially the Temple menorah, a seven-branched