The Assyrians are well known for their vast ancient empire in the Middle East; ancient cities, such as Nimrud and Nineveh; and their fierce invasions, including into the Kingdom of Judah and Egypt.
The people of modern-day Lebanon can trace their genetic ancestry back to the Canaanites, new research finds. The Canaanites were residents of the Levant (modern-day Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine) during the Bronze Age, starting about 4,000 years ago. Who are the Amorites ...
Where did the Hittites live? What is Cleopatra's brother's name? What did Herodotus find most unusual about the Persians? Who are the descendants of the Gauls? What did the Assyrians borrow from the Hittites? Who are the children of Zeus and Hera?
Just as modern Jews trace their lineage back to the ancient Israelites, there is a modern Assyrian ethnic group that claims direct descent from the Assyrians of the Bible. The modern Assyrians are a minority in the Middle East, as well as in other parts of the world where they have migra...
The first part of this sentence (Hebrews 7:1-2, as far as “. . . tenth part of all”) enumerates the known facts of the history of Melchizedek; the following clauses are occupied with the interpretation of the history, and with inferences from it. Of the facts recorded in Genesis ...
Fr. Stephen: And “sir” comes from “sire,” and all that. So it was used kind of that same way. For example, the famous founder of Kabbalism, they call him the Baal Shem Tov, and you’re like: “Wait, Baal? Why are they calling this Jewish guy Baal?” Well, it’s being ...
Who were the Hittites descended from? Who did Assyria conquer? Who defeated the Chaldeans and conquered Babylon? Who was the leader of the Hittites? What civilization conquered the Assyrian Empire? Who conquered Ancient Greece? Who conquered the Mycenaeans? Who defeated the Carthaginians? Who conqu...
The new poems in this first public volume of his poetry are little more than schoolboy translations from the classics and imitations of such pre-Romantics as Thomas Gray, Thomas Chatterton, Robert Burns, and James Macpherson's Ossian, and of contemporaries including Walter Scott and Thomas Moore....
Enki is Jesus and for some Jungians, Enki becomes an archetype of the Messiah. Whatever the moniker, Enki and the other Anunnunaki were PEOPLE, not all-knowing, all-good, all-powerful; none of them are what the Anunnaki call “the Creator-of-All,” Native Americans call “Great Spirit...
Sidney Bass, a Jew, along with his brothers, are the largest shareholders of The Walt Disney Company. CNN is a holding of Time-Warner, of which, the Jewish Bronfman family has controlling interest. Time Magazine is also owned by Bronfmans’ Time Warner Corporation. Newsweek and the ...