Babylonians Archive
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Fingerprints have been a source of people's great fascination and can be traced back to ancient times. Handprints and fingerprints made by W.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have once again found proof our ancestors were more sophisticated than previously thought. There is much to learn from cuneiform tablets, or
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The ancient civilization of the Sumer still hides many secrets. Representatives of this unique culture left behind many art pieces, pottery, writing hydraulic
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Herodotus, a Greek historian from the 5th century BC, wrote about Cyrus the Great as a tolerant, perfect monarch. In the Bible's Isaiah
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Archaeoastronomy
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In ancient times the elusive planet Mercury was known under a variety of different names such as Nabu, Thoth, Hermes, Apollo, Buddha and
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Biblical Mysteries
David Tee - AncientPages.com - The Temple Mount is probably the most fragile place on earth. It is also the most incendiary site as well. Managed by the Islamic
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Ancient History Facts
AncientPages.com - Painting your fingernails in ancient China and Egypt was not just a matter of vanity. The color of a person's nails indicates social status. Our ancestors
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Plimpton 322 is a 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablets that has puzzled mathematicians for more than 70 years. The small tablet was discovered in the early 1900s in
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Ancient Technology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Today, Danish physicist Hans Christian Oersted is credited with aluminum's invention. In 1825, Oersted successfully separated aluminum metal from its oxide and techniques to
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A Sumerian epic poem entitled "Inanna and Enki" says that the art of writing was among many essential elements of civilization, transferred from Eridu, the City
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Mesopotamia included Sumer and the Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian empires, all native to the territory of modern-day Iraq. Babylonians and Sumerians contributed to some of
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Ancient History Facts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Why has our week 7 days? The length of our day, month, and the year is based on astronomical observations. However, why we
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Ancient History Facts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - World’s oldest dictionaries come from the Akkadian Empire. The dictionaries are about 4,500-year-old and were discovered in Ebla, one of the earliest kingdoms
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Ancient History Facts
AncientPages.com - The first evidence of the use of soap can be traced to around 2800 B.C. Soap was invented by Babylonians and also used in Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt,
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