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Basse Mesopotamie Ur3. In a contemporary inscription of Naram-Sin of Akkad (c. 2200 BC), after a number of cities rebelled he deified himself, mentioning Kutha. "Naram-Sin, the mighty, king of Agade, when the four quarters together revolted against him, through the love which the goddess Astar showed him, he was victorious in nine battles in one in 1 year, and the kings whom they (the rebels ...
The passage claimed that Abraham was born in the Babylonian city Camarina, which it notes was also called "Uria". (Such indirect quotations of Eupolemus via Polyhistor are referred to as Pseudo-Eupolemus.) This site is identified by modern scholars with the Sumerian city of Ur located at Tell el-Mukayyar, which in ancient texts was named Uriwa ...
The village was also identified by an ancient mound in the vicinity called Khirbet el-Yahud ("ruin of the Jews"). Beit Ur al-Fauqa ( Arabic : بيت عور الفوقة , "Upper house of straw") and Beit Ur al-Tahta ( Arabic : بيت عور التحتى , "Lower house of straw") preserve parts of the original Canaanite names for these sites ...
Highway 1 between Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley follows the ancient route. [citation needed] To the west of Shechem, the ancient "Aphek Ascent" from the Via Maris and the coastal plain passed through Aphek, Soco and today's Kfar Saba and . Highway 55 duplicates the eastern part of this route. [citation needed]
Although the placename can be found in English as Haran, Charan, and Charran, it should not be confused with the personal name Haran, one of Abram's two brothers.The biblical placename is חָרָן (with a ḥet) in Hebrew, pronounced and can mean "parched," but is more likely to mean "road" or "crossroad," cognate to Old Babylonian ḫaranu (MSL 09, 124-137 r ii 54').
Archaeologists uncovered an ancient Native American village that could date back 2,000 years in Miami. It's being called one of the most significant prehistoric sites in the US. The Miami Herald ...
Tirzah (Hebrew: תִּרְצָה) was an ancient town in the Samarian highlands northeast of Shechem; it is generally identified with the site of Tell el-Far'ah (North), northeast of modern city of Nablus, West Bank, [1] [2] in the immediate vicinity of the Palestinian village of Wadi al-Far'a.
This is a list of known ancient Egyptian towns and cities. [1] The list is for sites intended for permanent settlement and does not include fortresses and other locations of intermittent habitation. a capital of ancient Egypt