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• North Carolina National Guard working to preserve Iraqi history

  
  America's North Shore Journal — Authority: 135
  The complexes of dirt mounds – Tal Aldair and Sobbar Abu Habba – were once Sumerian city walls outside of what is today Mahmudiyah, south of Baghdad. Pottery and clay tablets with the worlds first form of writing, Cuneiform, are known to be in the mounds. The Sumerian culture is the oldest civilization in the ...
  5 days ago

• A Pre-Greek name for Odysseus

  
  Paleoglot — Authority: 111
  In my previous post (Odysseus, Uthuze and Utnapishtim), I finished off with the dangling idea that the name Odysseus had reached Anatolia and the Aegean by the second millenium BCE. This shouldnt be a provocative speculation given the facts and communis opinio. However, the question is exactly how the name entered ...
  5 days ago

• Movie Review: The Fourth Kind

  
  Cinemaroll — Authority: 135
  We’ll get to the movie in a minute, but first we should discuss the style.  Lately, there have been many movies starting with the “Blair Witch Project” and culminating with “Paranormal Activity” that use a mix between handheld documentary style and the usual cinematographic style.  “The Fourth Kind” ...
  6 days ago

• Paranormal 101 W/ Mr.E - Nov 16,2009

  
  PARANORMAL 101 ( ALL THINGS PARANORMAL & METAPHYSICAL) | Blog Talk Radio Feed — Authority: 106
  Paranormal 101 W/ Mr.E (t.b.a) Paranormal 101 | Aliens 2012 | UFO | Ancients | Sumerian
  6 days ago

• Ambient Synth Jam On A Synthesizers.com Modular Synth

  
  Synthtopia — Authority: 522
  Click here to view the embedded video. Sunday Synth Jam : this video captures an ambient synth jam, Annunaki , on a Synthesizers.com modular synthesizer. via davidryle : A live take. Trance induced polyrhythmic ambient piece. It reminded me of something old – hence the name. The Watchers from the ...
  6 days ago

• Odysseus, Uthuze and Utnapishtim

  
  Paleoglot — Authority: 111
  Ive been dwelling the past few days on the origin of Etruscan words. Many words appear to be of Doric origin and then there are even older loanwords, it seems, showing Anatolian IE, West Semitic and Egyptian influence. On the topic of the origin of the Etruscan name, Uθuze (ET Cy G.1 and OI G.39), we need only look ...
  1 week ago

• Your emails 5000 years later

  
  Cerno — Authority: 417
  Present day Iraq is littered with 5000 year old memos, invoices, account ledgers, personal letters, business correspondence, payrolls, legal documents and the bureaucratic “paperwork” kings. All of which were originally written on slabs of wet clay commonly referred to as Cuneiform (indopedia.org has a brief ...
  1 week ago

• The Real Truth Behind The Fourth Kind

  
  Cinematical — Authority: 757
  I am a bubble burster, always have been. My first experience with The Fourth Kind was writing up the trailer for SciFiSquad with the slug "Trailer for The Fourth Kind Might be Lying to You" . I have no innate grudge against the film, but I am aware that we live in the year 2009 and that I am surrounded by ...
  1 week ago

• Top 10 Best Paranormal Romances

  
  Love Romance Passion — Authority: 505
  by Susan Sigler, guest blogger What do you think about, when someone mentions the term Halloween? We usually conjure thoughts of haunted houses, scary costumes, and lots of candy. Now what if you were to intermingle scary with romance, what comes to mind? We think about paranormals, exactly! I find paranormal ...
  2 weeks 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

• UFO & ALIEN DAILY NEWS FOR OCT 19, 2009

  
  Alien UFO & The Paranormal Casebook — Authority: 136
  IF IT HIT THE INTERNET TODAY, YOULL FIND IT BELOW MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2009 Alien, UFO & The Paranormal Casebook is a site that specializes in bringing this very days news to its visitors as it appears on the Internet each and every day.All text links and picture links are TROJAN & VIRAL SAFE and open to ...
  3 weeks ago

• “The Fourth Kind” Deals With Alien Abductions

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  By Ranjan Bhaduri,Oct 19, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Another Sci-fi movie hits the theaters on Nov 6, 2009. “The Fourth Kind” is the first major work of Joe Carnahan’s protege- Olantunde Osunsanmi. The movie has been re-enacted based on the footage of a documentary. Another U.S.P of the “The Fourth Kind” is that it ...
  3 weeks ago

• Saturday is for Sumerian Proverbs: Fate as a Dog Edition

  
  ???? ??? — Authority: 498
  This Saturday’s Sumerian Proverb (which, as usual, is drawn from Bendt Alster’s book, Proverbs of Ancient Sumer ) is another example of an interesting metaphorical string.  Enjoy! “Fate is a dog, well able to bite. It clings like  dirty rags (saying), ‘Who is my man? Let him know it!’” 2:11
  4 weeks ago

• I Might Be a Little Homesick for Sumeria. Also, a cry for help.

  
  What Were You Thinking? — Authority: 106
  Conversation with my son  (while working on his "Sumerian Family" essay)Son:  "I said here at the beginning that Dad wears a grass man skirt.  A BIG man skirt."Me:  "mmhmmmm...Thats nice."Son:  "Can I say youre approaching fifty?"Me:  "WHAT?  No!  Im not approaching fifty!"Son:  "Well, what ARE you ...
  8 weeks ago

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