Mostrando entradas con la etiqueta Mesopotamia. Mostrar todas las entradas
Mostrando entradas con la etiqueta Mesopotamia. Mostrar todas las entradas

sábado, 4 de marzo de 2023

Two 3,800-year-old Cuneiform Tablets Found in Iraq Give First Glimpse of Hebrew Precursor

The ancient tablets, uncovered 30 years ago during the Gulf War and forgotten until now, offer a first glimpse of the Amorite language that Hebrew developed from.


It’s not every day that Assyriologists have thrilling news to celebrate.

These scholars of the history, archeology and language of ancient Mesopotamia spend most of their time poring over languages like Akkadian, Sumerian, Elamite, Aramaic and Ugaritic, and arduously trying to decipher cuneiform tablets. But this past week was different. “This is something sensational. I’m excited,” says Professor Nathan Wasserman of the Hebrew University Institute of Archaelogy and

domingo, 21 de agosto de 2022

Iraq’s Garden of Eden, parched by drought, is now ‘like a desert’

Vast expanses of the once lush Huwaizah Marshes, straddling the border with Iran, have been baked dry, devastating people and wildlife.

A demonstrator approaches a boat stuck in the dried-up bank of a canal, during a rally at the Umm El Wadaa marsh, south-east of the Iraqi city of Nasiriyah in the southern Dhi Qar province, on August 16, 2022, to demand solutions for water scarcity and drought. (Asaad NIAZI / AFP)

HUWAIZAH MARSHES, Iraq (AFP) — To feed and cool his buffaloes, Hashem Gassed must cross 10 kilometers (six miles) of sunburnt land in southern Iraq, where drought is devastating swaths of the mythical Mesopotamian Marshes.

The reputed home of the biblical Garden of Eden, Iraq’s swamplands have been battered by three years of drought and low rainfall, as well as reduced water flows along rivers and tributaries originating in neighboring Turkey and Iran.

sábado, 14 de mayo de 2022

Is Babylon once again rising from the ashes?

First-person: There is growing evidence the Iraqi government is serious about rebuilding this ancient wonder of the world.
By JOEL C. ROSENBERG / ALL ARAB NEWS

Iraqis celebrate after UNESCO designated ancient city of Babylon as World Heritage Site in July of 2019     (photo credit: REUTERS/THAIER AL-SUDANI)

A fascinating story is being written in the shifting sands of Arabia.

A story that will confound atheists and agnostics.

And should thrill Jews and Christians.

miércoles, 29 de diciembre de 2021

Del ‘Farhud’ a la expulsión de 850 000 judíos

“[…] el “Farhud” fue la expresión más violenta de las simpatías que profesaba la dirigencia árabe hacia el nazismo, teniendo como trasfondo su vehemente oposición a la presencia judía en Palestina, […]”

Refugiados judios llegan a Israel

“Farhud”, en árabe “expropiación violenta”, fue la matanza de cientos de judíos en Irak, que tuvo lugar entre el 1 al 2 de junio de 1941, a mano de hordas musulmanas, fecha que marca también el principio del fin a más de 2500 años de presencia judía en Mesopotamia, misma que se remonta al primer exilio tras la caída de Judea y su capital, Jerusalén, ante Nabucodonosor en el 586 a. C., mil años antes de Mahoma.

El “Farhud” estuvo influenciado por el primer ministro iraquí Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, dignatario que promovió la difusión de propaganda nazi en las radios locales.

domingo, 29 de noviembre de 2020

The Abraham Accords as an Impetus to Rehabilitate Western Civilization

Abraham Sees Sodom in Flames, circa 1896–1902, by James Jacques Joseph Tissot (French, 1836-1902) via Wikipedia

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,789, October 29, 2020

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Biblical morality, which can also be called Abrahamic morality, was born in Mesopotamia and from there spread west. Until Europe freed itself of its yoke, it was the legacy of the West. Europe’s renunciation led to a series of horrendous calamities from which it was rescued by the US and Britain, which, unlike continental Europe, continued to uphold Abrahamic morality. The Abraham Accords were signed at a time when the US, patron of the Accords and leader of

martes, 10 de septiembre de 2019

The Story of David and Goliath Is Not Just A Story – It REALLY Happened!

Archaeology is not just the science of the covered past. It is the fuel of the future. The story of David and Goliath is not just a relic of the past. It inspires us today. In general, people look at history as something that may or may not connect to our lives today. This is completely wrong when it comes to Israeli finds.

The Bible is literally covered up by the ground that we walk on today. So, anytime that a new discovery is made, it is as if another chapter in the Bible comes to life.



sábado, 16 de febrero de 2019

Arqueólogos encuentran la ciudad bíblica de Ai mencionada en el libro de Josué


Por: Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz
Según el Libro de Josué, la ciudad de Ai fue conquistada por los israelitas en su segundo intento.

El Dr. Scott Stripling está en proceso de comprobar su teoría sobre la ubicación precisa de la ciudad bíblica de Ai y, si se acepta, puede ser un paso importante para demostrar que la Biblia es una fuente válida para los arqueólogos.

El Dr. Stripling, rector del Seminario Bíblico en Katy (Houston) Texas, es un hombre con una profunda fe en la Biblia y una pasión por la verdad científica. Estas fuerzas aparentemente conflictivas lo han llevado a tamizar a través de las arenas de Israel por más de 20 años. El Dr. Stripling es el director arqueológico de los Asociados para la Investigación Bíblica (ABR), una organización cristiana que reúne la investigación bíblica y la arqueología para avanzar mutuamente en ambas disciplinas.

sábado, 7 de julio de 2018

The Mandate for Palestine


The Mandate for Palestine
July 24, 1922

The mandates for Mesopotamia, Syria and Palestine were assigned by the Supreme Court of the League of Nations at its San Remo meeting in April 1920. Negotiations between Great Britain and the United States with regard to the Palestine mandate were successfully concluded in May 1922, and approved by the Council of the League of Nations in July 1922. The mandates for Palestine and Syria came into force simultaneously on September 29, 1922. In this document, the League of Nations recognized the "historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine" and the "grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country."

Text:

The Council of the League of Nations

Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have agreed, for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, to entrust to a Mandatory selected by the said Powers the administration of the territory of Palestine, which formerly belonged to the Turkish Empire, within such boundaries as may be fixed by them; and

martes, 1 de agosto de 2017

The Canaanites weren’t annihilated, they just ‘moved’ to Lebanon

A UK-based study of ancient genomes finds Canaanites form over 90% of modern Lebanese ancestry, a trait they share with ancient Israelites

Burial of individual analyzed in the Canaanite study, from about 1600 BC. (Dr. Claude Doumet-Serhal/Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)

A new study suggests the biblical account of the commanded annihilation of the ancient Canaanite people at the hands of the invading Israelites was a bit premature, claiming their descendants are still living just up the road, across the Lebanese border.

martes, 27 de junio de 2017

In NY, a wild exhibit on biblical Noah’s feral seafarers

Flood myths were common in the Fertile Crescent 5,000 years ago — and the Morgan Library and Museum has the artifacts to prove it


NEW YORK — Noah’s seaborne menagerie was supposed to carry enough animals, birds and insects to repopulate the earth after the great flood waters receded.