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Theobalds House (also known as Theobalds Palace) in the parish of Cheshunt in the English county of Hertfordshire, north of London, was a significant stately home and (later) royal palace of the 16th and early 17th centuries. Set in extensive parkland, it was a residence of statesmen Lord Burghley and his son, both leading royal advisers.
Allammelech – within the Tribe of Asher land, described in the Book of Joshua. [1] Allon Bachuth; Alqosh, in the Nineveh Plains, mentiomed in the Book of Nahum; Ammon – Canaanite state; Attalia – In Asia Minor; Antioch – In Asia Minor; Arabia – (in biblical times and until the 7th century AD Arabia was confined to the Arabian Peninsula)
The Catholic Bible contains 73 books; the additional seven books are called the Apocrypha and are considered canonical by the Catholic Church, but not by other Christians. When citing the Latin Vulgate , chapter and verse are separated with a comma, for example "Ioannem 3,16"; in English Bibles chapter and verse are separated with a colon, for ...
As a result, more than two-thirds (66%) of one hundred thousand pieces of museum treasures and artifacts were lost or destroyed. [28] A pair of 6th-century monumental statues known as the Buddhas of Bamiyan were dynamited by the Taliban in March 2001, [29] who had declared them heretical idols. The world’s oldest oil paintings were discovered ...
The Hasmonean and Herodian royal winter palaces, or the Hasmonean and Herodian palaces at Jericho, are a complex of Hasmonean and Herodian buildings from the Second Temple period, which were discovered in the western plain of Jericho valley, at Tulul Abu el-'Alayiq, near the place where the Roman road connecting Jericho with Jerusalem enters Wadi Qelt. [1]
The author is identified as "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ" (James 1:1). James (Jacob, Hebrew: יַעֲקֹב, romanized: Ya'aqov, Ancient Greek: Ιάκωβος, romanized: Iakobos) was an extremely common name in antiquity, and a number of early Christian figures are named James, including: James the son of Zebedee, James the Less, James the son of Alphaeus, and James ...
After 50 years of neglect, Rome’s “lost” imperial palace Domus Tiberiana has reopened as an open-air museum. Until recently a crumbling and off-limits ruin near the famous Colosseum, the ...
Map of Davidic Jerusalem, with the location of the Millo indicated. Stepped stone structure/millo with the House of Ahiel to the left. The Millo (Hebrew: המלוא, romanized: ha-millō) was a structure in Jerusalem referred to in the Hebrew Bible, first mentioned as being part of the city of David in 2 Samuel 5:9 and the corresponding passage in the Books of Kings (1 Kings 9:15) and later in ...