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15 hours ago · The word Holocene was formed from two Ancient Greek words. Hólos ( ὅλος) is the Greek word for "whole". "Cene" comes from the Greek word kainós ( καινός ), meaning "new". The concept is that this epoch is "entirely new". [7] [8] [9] The suffix '-cene' is used for all the seven epochs of the Cenozoic Era.
15 hours ago · The commonly proposed period of earlier Vedic age is dated back to 2nd millennium BCE. Vedism was the sacrificial religion of the early Indo-Aryans, speakers of early Old Indic dialects, ultimately deriving from the Proto-Indo-Iranian peoples of the Bronze Age who lived on the Central Asian steppes. Origins
15 hours ago · The word monotheism comes from the Greek μόνος ( monos) [14] meaning "single" and θεός ( theos) [15] meaning "god". [16] The English term was first used by Henry More (1614–1687). [17] Monotheism is a complex and nuanced concept. The biblical authors had various ways of understanding God and the divine, shaped by their historical and ...
15 hours ago · The Neo-Babylonian Empire or Second Babylonian Empire, historically known as the Chaldean Empire, was the last polity ruled by monarchs native to Mesopotamia. Beginning with the coronation of Nabopolassar as the King of Babylon in 626 BC and being firmly established through the fall of the Assyrian Empire in 612 BC, the Neo-Babylonian Empire was conquered by the Achaemenid Persian Empire in ...
15 hours ago · First millennium AD. From Late Antiquity, we have for the first time languages with earliest records in manuscript tradition (as opposed to epigraphy). Thus, Classical Armenian is first attested in the Armenian Bible translation. The Vimose inscriptions (2nd and 3rd centuries) in the Elder Futhark runic alphabet appear to record Proto-Norse names.
15 hours ago · Radiocarbon dating helped verify the authenticity of the Dead Sea scrolls. Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon . The method was developed in the late 1940s at ...
