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• Adversities Await Iraqis Who Return Home

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  More than half a million Iraqi families have left their homes since 2003, and one international group has identified fewer than 60,000 who have returned.
  3 days ago

• NYT > World: Adversities Await Iraqis Who Return Home

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 469
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . More than half a million Iraqi families have left their homes since 2003, and one international group has identified fewer than 60,000 who have returned.
  3 days ago

• On Harems and Mara Beboos

  
  Wanderlust & Pixie Dust — Authority: 108
  Harem. The World Behind The Veil by Alev Lytle Croutier.  This fascinating book is so chock full of interesting tidbits its difficult to know where to begin.  Maybe Ill just start off talking about the photos I posted (in no particular order) and see where this leads me. 3 women sit below without their veils in a ...
  1 week ago

• The World’s Oldest Beverage

  
  FriendsEAT.com — Authority: 433
  Its delicious and incredibly old Believe it or not, beer is almost as old as civilization itself, and can be traced to the earliest Sumerian writings in Sumer, an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium ...
  2 weeks ago

• Open Access Syrian Archaeology

  
  AWOL - The Ancient World Online — Authority: 472
  The website of Studia Orontica provides open access to Studia Orontica (six volumes available - already cited in AWOL) Les Annales Archeologiques Arabes Syriennes (AAAS) VOL XL VII - XL VIII (table of contents) Vol. XLIX-L Arabic | English (Full text) and to a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

  
  The Toynbee convector — Authority: 127
  This was a Depression, not Crash, song, but it will do to mark the anniversary.The market slid on Thursday October 24 1929, but the catastrophic collapse occurred on Monday and Tuesday, October 28 and 29.The song was written in 1931. The lyrics were by Yip Harburg, the music by Jay Gorney. It was sung by, [...]
  2 weeks ago

• MACK M SNEAKS A PEAK AT THE CUP

  
  Summerhill Blog — Authority: 137
  EMPERORS PALACE READY TO RUN CUP CANDIDATE With just days left to qualify for the R1,5 Million Emperors Palace Ready To Run Cup , this weekend is sure to see a spurt of do-or-die performances for 2008 Ready To Run Graduates wanting to make the handicappers’ cut. The first to step up at Greyville last night was ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ishtar and Inanna and Zombies

  
  Ketuvim: the Writings of James R. Getz Jr. — Authority: 117
  My exploration of the relationship between Ishtar and Zombies in the Gilgamesh Epic has taken another turn. I recently acquired a copy of Diane Wolkstein and Samuel Noah Kramer’s Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth . The Sumerian goddess Inanna and the Akkadian goddess Ishtar had become largely (and almost ...
  2 weeks ago

• Moloch Worship in Ancient Canaan

  
  History Blog — Authority: 119
  A Greek transcription of the Hebrew molech, meaning king, Moloch was one of the prominent pagan deities of ancient Mesopotamia. As many Israelites burned their children alive in tribute to this idol, modern thinking holds that the name in fact derives from the Punic root MLK, meaning offering or sacrifice, and ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Noah Story and Mesopotamian Myth, Pt 2

  
  Messianic Jewish Musings — Authority: 421
  In Part 1, I presented the famous Sumerian/Babylonian/Assyrian flood story which passed down over more than a thousand years through Babylonian poets into the new Assyrian empire, where it has come to us through the results of archaeological exploration. As I said, this flood story is part of an epic which developed ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Noah Story and Mesopotamian Myth, Pt 1

  
  Messianic Jewish Musings — Authority: 421
  Most people are completely unaware of the rich background of story and myth which is the setting of the Bible and especially books like Genesis. In the synagogue reading cycle, this week is Genesis 6:9 – 11:32, the story of Noah, Babel, the table of nations, and the genealogy up to Abraham. It is a [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Robert Fisk: Genocide forgotten: Armenians horrified by treaty with Turkey

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 142
  In the autumn of 1915, an Austrian engineer called Litzmayer, who was helping build the Constantinople-Baghdad railway, saw what he thought was a large Turkish army heading for Mesopotamia. But as the crowd came closer, he realised it was a huge caravan of women, moving forward under the supervision of soldiers.The ...
  3 weeks ago

• Robert Fisk: Genocide forgotten: Armenians horrified by treaty with Turkey

  
  The Gates of Hell — Authority: 134
  In the autumn of 1915, an Austrian engineer called Litzmayer, who was helping build the Constantinople-Baghdad railway, saw what he thought was a large Turkish army heading for Mesopotamia. But as the crowd came closer, he realised it was a huge caravan of women, moving forward under the supervision of soldiers. The ...
  3 weeks ago

• Or maybe God is the Creator, and we shouldn’t read Genesis too literally?

  
  KHdN - Kenneth Hynek (dot Net) — Authority: 435
  This isn’t actually news to me , I should begin by saying. Anyone with a gram of knowledge about ancient Hebrew texts shouldn’t be surprised by the news that according to the Book of Genesis, God did not create the waters and the Earth. Or , rather, He might have created them…but the book doesn’t actually ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mesopotamian Lapbook

  
  Wired For Noise — Authority: 421
  So we just finished studying Mesopotamia (using Mosiac ) and I thought it would be fun to try our first lapbook. Evan and I plooked at a few examples and he thought it was beyond neat and couldn’t wait. Here’s what we did: This is the front of it. I found that graphic online at MrDonn.org OK, now the ...
  4 weeks ago

• World Briefing | Middle East: Iraq: Bomb in Car Kills Sunni Cleric Who Spoke Out Against Insurgents

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  A Sunni cleric who had denounced insurgents was killed when a bomb tore through his car on Friday, a police official said.
  4 weeks ago

• Extremists Are Detained in Iraqi City

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  An Iraqi crackdown in the northern city of Mosul yielded 150 insurgent arrests, the latest attempt to break insurgent strength there.
  5 weeks ago

• Understanding Mesopotamian Weltanschauung

  
  cat dirt sez "crime pay$" — Authority: 125
  Sumerian statue photograph              Weltanschauung is just a German word for "world view." (wiki) So "understanding Mesopotamian wetanschauung"means "understanding how Mesopotamians thought about stuff." Mesopotamian thought should be interesting because it preceded and then existed side by side with ...
  7 weeks ago

• Ishtar and Zombies

  
  Ketuvim: the Writings of James R. Getz Jr. — Authority: 117
  Ishtar has this nasty habit of threatening to release the dead upon the world of the living. My question, and the question of my students, is why is this the case? Why does Ishtar have this thing for zombies? In the Gilgamesh Epic, Ishtar threatens Anu that unless he gives to her the Bull of Heaven, all hell will ...
  7 weeks ago

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