Who were the people of the steppes? The Scythians (Sakans to the Persians)lived in the Steppes, from the 7th to the 3rd century B.C., displacing the Cimmerians in the area of Ukraine. Scythians and Medes may have attacked Urartu in the 7th century. Herodotus says the language and cultu...
Question: Who are the descendants of the Incas? End of the Inca Empire: The Inca Empire came to an end after the successful conquest of the Spanish conquistadors led by Francisco Pizzaro. The Incas were never able to recover from this, and with the introduction of diseases by the Spanish ...
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A recent BBC article about the “Witches of Bucha”—a Ukrainian volunteer air defense unit primarily composed of women—brought to mindfierce female warriors from history and legend: Queen Boudica of the ancient British Iceni tribe, the shield-maidens of Scandinavian sagas, and the “Onna-musha...
Nahum 2:1Nahum begins his message to Nineveh with a brief sarcastic statement (v 1) referring to the Medes, the Babylonians, and the Scythians who were allied against Assyria. Nahum 2:1LitMake strong your loins. Nahum 2:1-2 New International Version ...
(comp. Ezekiel 47:8) the Dead Sea, that valley which covers the ancient overbearing ones (die Zerreisenden), the Sodomites, who resemble these;" Keil, translating kidmath as "in front of," holds by "the valley of the Jordan above the Dead Sea;" Havernick and Smend advocate "a place...
Meanwhile, in Constantinople, Anna fought her own battle. She was expected to study subjects considered proper for a Byzantine princess, like courtly etiquette and theBible, but preferred classical myth and philosophy. To access this material, she...
“Amazon” is a Greek term that was first used by the Romans to describe female fighters. The five types mentioned below are definitely Amazons. However, I believe that among these five cases, only Scythians and Vikings can be considered as ancient societies that affirmed women’s leadership to...
Notably, Amazons are shown in tunics and trousers, or leggings, like those worn by male Scythians. Standard male Greek attire at the time was a rectangle of cloth draped and fastened with pins and a belt, a chiton, similar to that of many other...
In this sermon Sheldon Emry addresses some of the dishonest and hypocritical arguments which those who oppose or outright reject the idea that theliving descendants of the ancient Israelitescan be found among the Anglo-Saxons and related European peoples. ...