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- The earliest written record of dentistry appears to be a Sumerian text from 5000 B.C.E. that describes "tooth worms" as the causal ...16 KB (2,245 words) - 16:53, 26 September 2020
- for the name Iraq. One dates to the Sumerian city of Uruk (or Erech); ... The world's first known civilization, the Sumerian culture, flourished ...56 KB (8,476 words) - 13:04, 6 March 2024
- both fertility and militarism, as the Sumerian Inanna presents a valid ... In Avestan, an ancient Indo-European language found in the Gathas ...27 KB (4,334 words) - 12:25, 13 October 2022
- (whose king, Etana, supposedly founded the first Sumerian dynasty after the Deluge). Sir C. Leonard Woolley’s excavations at Ur south of Uruk in the ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 00:43, 24 November 2022
- alongside ancient Egypt and Sumerian Civilization, as a place ... civilization may be preserved in the Sumerian Me-lah-ha, which Asko Parpola ...32 KB (5,016 words) - 21:11, 22 March 2024
- Great Flood described in its text. The Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2000 ... the nearest town to Mount Ararat. The language spoken by the Celali is Kurmanji. ...13 KB (1,990 words) - 17:03, 10 November 2022
- word for copper, and is related to the Sumerian word for copper, (zubar ... ethnic identities based on religion, language, and close ties with their ...33 KB (4,886 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
- *Sumerian: Ziusudra *Babylonian: Atra-Hasis, Utnapishtim, Xisuthrus *Greek: Deucalion *Toltec: Toptlipetlocali A direct connection to the story ...17 KB (2,732 words) - 18:11, 11 November 2023
- Yam or Yamm, from the ancient Semitic word meaning "sea," is the name of the Canaanite god of rivers and the sea. Yam was also the ...15 KB (2,297 words) - 10:06, 22 May 2023
- is wholly extant only in the Ethiopic language. There are two other books ... The Greek language text was known to, and quoted by nearly all, Church ...29 KB (4,679 words) - 07:27, 17 November 2023
- is the New Testament, written in the Koine Greek language. ... creation narrative and that of the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, such ...62 KB (8,829 words) - 16:26, 30 January 2024
- Language is a structured system of communication that consists of ... Depending on philosophical perspectives on the definition of language ...112 KB (16,049 words) - 21:16, 26 February 2023
- #039;amtum), which was derived from the Sumerian ti ("life") and ... * Yahuda, A. S. The Language of the Pentateuch in its Relation to ...16 KB (2,560 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023
- . They can influence the rhythm of a language, its prosody, its poetic ... tablets written around 2800 B.C.E. in the Sumerian city of Ur. This shift from ...43 KB (6,361 words) - 16:51, 25 February 2023
- copies of every publication in the English language. ===Funding=== ... three existing Gutenberg Bibles, and a Sumerian scripted tablet dating back ...24 KB (3,496 words) - 22:34, 25 October 2022
- The Phoenician language is counted among the Canaanite languages in ... In terms of archeology, language, and religion, there is little to ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- A fable is a succinct story, in prose or verse, that employs the literary device, anthropomorphism - that is giving animals, plants, inanimate ...17 KB (2,635 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
- castration for this purpose are from the Sumerian cities of Lagash in the twenty-first century B.C.E. Over the millennia since, eunuchs have ...18 KB (2,792 words) - 18:55, 11 September 2023
- to the Akkadian edinu, which derives from the Sumerian E.DIN. The latter words mean "plain" or "steppe." Eden is described ...19 KB (3,242 words) - 04:30, 18 April 2024
- of Rim-Sin, King of the Larsa dynasty (Sumerian period) c. 2300 B.C.E., ... is a distinct promise expressed in language which is perfectly unmistakable ...41 KB (6,819 words) - 02:48, 8 January 2024
