The next piece of historical evidence of linen use comes from ancient dwellings that were built on Switzerland’s lakefronts around 10,000 years ago, and according to archaeologists, linen was first domesticated in ancient Mesopotamia. While the use of linen for garments in Mesopotamia was mainly...
the Petra region saw some of the first experiments in farming. The hunter-gatherers of the Paleolithic Age gave way, over nine thousand years ago, to settled communities living in walled farming villages such as at Beidha, just north of Petra...
And to the shabiha who are going to jump on spreading this status far and wide in order to increase the perimeter in which to kill me psychologically, on a human level and technically, I say to you: Palestine taught me to never be silent against injustice. Close your eyes if you want ...
the greatest store of ancient flint tools -a Neolithic warehouse of knives, choppers, and projectile points. Even though the stone had to be lugged from neighboring valleys, there are more flints in one little area here, a square meter or two, than many archaeologists find in entire sites. ...
civilization, if we are to retain that term, should then refer to the historical outcomes of *exchanges and borrowingsbetween societies, rather than to processes or **attributesthat set on society apart from another either way.. *exchangesor **labels.. killers of the soul.. no?
There aresuchNeanderthal burial sites to be found in Shanidar in Iraq and Krapina in Croatia and Kebara Cave in Israel.That puts them back in a time some300,000 years ago and it was discovered in 2014 that Neanderthal DNA displays in our own genetic timeline so the Neanderthals must...
(friend or supporter of the Greeks) makes its first appearance under Mithradates I around 140 BCESince this king did a great deal to diminish the area of Seleukid control in Western Iran and eastern Mesopotamia, his propaganda can not be taken at full face value. Nonetheless, th...
In music Apotheosis in music refers to the appearance of a theme in grand or exalted form. It represents the musical equivalent of the apotheosis genre in visual art, especially where the theme is connected in some way with historical persons or dramatic characters. When crowning the end of a...