It's easy to imagine the Sahara as a lifeless and timeless place, where the merciless forces of nature rule over any sense of human history. However, that's far from the truth. Some corners of the Western Sahara,found along the northwestern coast of Africa, are littered with hundreds of ...
nicians, Greeks, Romans, Scythians, Celts, Germans, all equally regarded sacrifice as a main element of their religion; and if the Hebrews had not offered actual sacrifices during their oppression in Egypt, they had, at any rate, maintained the wish to offer them, and it was (primarily) ...
So after a good deal of hunting, I find a ferry from Burgas, Bulgaria—not far from Istanbul—to Batumi, Georgia. The Black Sea has played a formative role in the creation of the idea of Europe. It was where the ancient Greeks first came into contact with the nomadic Scythians, out ...
Cyrus, king of Persia, making wars against the Scythians, had for his prize of the triumph a very fair woman called Panther, who being the wife of Abradatas, his enemy, being desired of Cyrus for his concubine, she told him that she was chaste; the king, little respecting this short ...
This desire to construct burial mounds is something that can be found in countless cultures across the planet, from the Scythians of ancient Siberia to the sea-faring Vikings of northern Europe, and it looks like the ancient people of Western Sahara were not different. For one reason or ...
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