Babylon and the Ishtar Gate Badegoule Baguettes demi-rondes Baile Herculane Bara Bahau Cave - La Grotte de Bara Bahau - Ice Age Cave Art Batavia - the journey, the shipwreck and the massacre Batavia - the ship Battle of Megiddo - Ancient Egyptian culture Baume-Latrone Beach Walking in Austr...
During the time of the Old Testament the ancient world extended from Egypt to Asia Minor over to the Caspian Sea and down to the Persian Gulf. One thousand miles from north to south and nearly 1500 miles from west to east. Only about one-third of the whole area of the ancient Near ...
Learn about the ancient Kingdom of Israel through a timeline and map. Explore how it came to be united and divided and eventually succumbed to...
in resources, was the birthplace of the world's first societies. The Fertile Crescent occupied the same territory as present-day Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and parts of Egypt, Turkey, and Iran. By 9000 B.C.E., the first societies and cultures had been formed and were ...
(1986): Gudai Nanhai diming huishi 古代南海地名汇释 (Collected explanations of ancient places-names in the South China Sea). Beijing: Zhonghua shuju.Search in Google Scholar Chen, Jiang-Ping Jeff (2010): “The evolution of transformation media inspherical trigonometry in 17th- and 18th-century...
In the time of Jerome it was still a considerable place, and still retains its ancient name --Bir es-Seba. There are at present on the spot two principal wells and five smaller ones. The two principal wells are on or close to the northern bank of the Wady es-Seba. The larger of ...
In the prolonged power struggle between the former generals of Alexander for control of the disintegrating empire, Seleucus sided with Ptolemy I of Egypt against Antigonus I, Alexander’s successor on the Macedonian throne, who had forced Seleucus out of Babylonia. In 312 Seleucus defeated ...
The word “mesopotamia” is formed from the ancient words “meso,” meaning between or in the middle of, and “potamos,” meaning river. Situated in the fertile valleys between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the region is now home to modern-day Iraq, Kuwait, Turkey and Syria. Goran tek...
Map of the Journeys of Jacob, the Father of the 12 Tribes of IsraelJacob (Heb. Ya'acov) was the son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham the first Hebrew. The Lord changed Jacob's name to Israel and he became the father of 12 sons who became the 12 tribes of Israel (Gen. 25-50)....
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