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“One interpretation of this burial practice is that it could be the burial of criminals or a type of outcast, although decapitation is well-known elsewhere and appears to have been a normal, albeit marginal, burial rite during the late Roman period,” the HS2 said in a statement over the...
Major epidemics broke out in Macedonia, Palestine, Mesopotamia, Italy, and sub-Saharan Africa.[6] In the Great War, malaria treatment fell back on quinine, but limited knowledge of malarial parasites compromised its effectiveness. Physicians of the time could not differentiate between the two ...
We, what you call the East, we had the cradle of religions, the cradle of philosophies, the cradles of life – Mesopotamia, the Ganges, the Indus in India, and then you have the Nile. And that is non-Western. So why should we submit to the idea that the world is divided in only ...
26He also said, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground,27and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how.28The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the...
According to Hollox, a genetic mutation accounting for persistence of the enzyme lactase in adult Europeans has been identified, and another, separate genetic mutation allowing for lactase persistence is found among Africans. Asians are not mentioned. But it was in Asia, in Mesopotamia, the cradle...
Cuneiform is a script first used in Mesopotamia and dating to the 4th century BC. Cuneiform was used in pre-historic times during the Bronze Age. Cuneiform was originally etched on clay pottery and clay tablets. Over 500,000 cuneiform tablets have been discovered, initially in present-day Iraq...
8,000 years ago, the first evidence of pottery arises in Mesopotamia, along with the domestic skills of spinning and weaving. In modern-day Georgia, also 8,000 years ago, the first evidence of winemaking emerges. Shortly thereafter, approximately 7,600 years ago, the basin of the modern Bla...
Alexander crossed into Asia (present-day Turkey) where he won a series of battles with the Persians under Darius III. Is Alexander the Great in the Bible? In the BibleAlexander was briefly mentioned in the first Book of the Maccabees. All of Chapter 1, verses 1–7 was about Alexander ...
While farmers may have grown spelt as long ago as 5000 BC in the region then known as Mesopotamia – now Iran. As civilizations migrated westward, spelt moved along with them. Not until the early 1900’s spelt migrated to North America and by 1910 more than 600,000 acres of spelt were ...