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16 hours ago · Canaan and the Canaanites are mentioned some 160 times in the Hebrew Bible, mostly in the Torah and the books of Joshua and Judges. They descended from Canaan, who was the grandson of Noah. Canaan was cursed with perpetual slavery because his father Ham had "looked upon" the drunk and naked Noah. The expression "look upon" at times has sexual ...
- Ghassulian
Replica of bronze sceptre from the Nahal Mishmar hoard (at...
- Canaan (Disambiguation)
Places Canada. Rural Municipality of Canaan No. 225,...
- Promised Land
The Promised Land (Hebrew: הארץ המובטחת, translit.: ha'aretz...
- Canaanism
Canaanism was a cultural and ideological movement which was...
- Levantine Archaeology
Dwelling foundations unearthed at Tell es-Sultan in Jericho....
- Haplogroup T-M184
Haplogroup T-M184, also known as Haplogroup T, is a human...
- Assyrian Empires
Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , māt Aššur) was a major...
- Punics
Carthaginian sphere of influence 264 BC. The Punic people,...
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16 hours ago · The Hyksos are known to have worshiped the Canaanite storm god Baal, who was associated with the Egyptian god Set. Set appears to have been the patron god of Avaris as early as the Fourteenth Dynasty. Hyksos iconography of their kings on some scarabs shows a mixture of Egyptian pharaonic dress with a raised club, the iconography of Baal.
16 hours ago · Akkadian (/ ə ˈ k eɪ d i ən /; Akkadian: 𒀝𒅗𒁺𒌑, romanized: Akkadû) is an extinct East Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia (Akkad, Assyria, Isin, Larsa, Babylonia and perhaps Dilmun) from the third millennium BC until its gradual replacement in common use by Old Aramaic among Assyrians and Babylonians from the 8th century BC.
16 hours ago · Along with Latin and a few extinct languages of ancient Italy, the Romance languages make up the Italic branch of the Indo-European family. Identifying subdivisions of the Romance languages is inherently problematic, because most of the linguistic area is a dialect continuum, and in some cases political biases can come into play. A tree model ...
16 hours ago · A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.)
16 hours ago · A History of Writing, Reaktion Books CN136481; Hoffman, Joel M. (2004). In the Beginning: A Short History of the Hebrew Language. New York University Press. Chapter 3. Jean-Jacques Glassner (2003). The Invention of Cuneiform: Writing in Sumer. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801873894; Late 20th century sources. Andrew Robinson, The Story ...
