Wide: May 2005" Wide: May 2005 8/10 TrackSounds Review Their first album, Unearthed, was made available online through CDBaby in January 2001. It went on to become the third biggest selling album in CDBaby's history. The success of the album prompted the wide release to retail in May 2005 through 33rd Street Records/Bayside Distribution. In keeping with the theme of "all things past" each of the thirteen tracks on the album is named for an ancient or long-standing city. They are: Antissa, Tikal, Harappa, Ulaid, Ebla, Nara, Cuzco, Nineveh, Lepcis Magn ...

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Although famously associated with the Ancient Romans, aqueducts were devised centuries earlier in the Middle East, where peoples such as the Babylonians and Egyptians built sophisticated irrigation systems. Roman-style aqueducts were used as early as the 7th century BC, when the Assyrians built a limestone aqueduct 30 feet (10 m) high and 900 feet (300 m) long to carry water across a valley to their capital city, Nineveh. The full length of the aqueduct ran for 50 miles (80 km). In the new world, the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán was watered by an aqueduct in the middle of the second millenium.

Aqueduct, Aqueduct - Ancient aqueducts, Aqueduct - Roman aqueducts, Aqueduct - Modern aqueducts, Aqueduct - Uses of aqueducts, Aqueduct - Notable aqueducts, Aqueduct - Navigable aqueducts, Aqueduct - Ancient Greek aqueducts, Aqueduct - Roman aqueducts, Aqueduct - Other aqueducts

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Dry farming was practiced by the population. This type of farming was based on exploiting natural rainfall without the help of irrigation, in a similar practice to that still practiced today by the Hopi people of Arizona. Emmer wheat, two rowed barley and flax were grown. They kept cattle, sheep and goats. Halaf pottery has been found in other parts of the Northern Mesopotamia, such as at Nineveh and Tepe Gawra, Chagar Bazar and many sites in Anatolia [Turkey]suggesting that it was widely used in the region. In addition, the Halaf com ...

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Nebuchadrezzar was the oldest son and successor of Nabopolassar, who delivered Babylon from its dependence on Assyria and laid Nineveh in ruins. According to Berossus, he married the daughter of Cyaxares, and thus the Median and Babylonian dynasties were united. Necho II, the king of Egypt, had gained a victory over the Assyrians at Carchemish. This secured Egypt the possession of Phoenician provinces of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, including parts of Palestine. The remaining Assyrian provinces were divided between Babylonia and Media. Na ...

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Nebuchadnezzar was the oldest son and successor of Nabopolassar, who delivered Babylon from its dependence on Assyria and laid Nineveh in ruins. According to Berossus, he married the daughter of Cyaxares, and thus the Median and Babylonian dynasties were united. Necho II, the king of Egypt, had gained a victory over the Assyrians at Carchemish. This secured Egypt the possession of Phoenician provinces of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, including parts of Palestine. The remaining Assyrian provinces were divided between Babylonia and Media. Na ...

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Although famously associated with the Ancient Romans, aqueducts were devised centuries earlier in the Middle East, where peoples such as the Babylonians and Egyptians built sophisticated irrigation systems. Roman-style aqueducts were used as early as the 7th century BC, when the Assyrians built a limestone aqueduct 30 feet (10 m) high and 900 feet (300 m) long to carry water across a valley to their capital city, Nineveh. The full length of th ...

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Of the early history of the kingdom of Assyria, little is positively known. According to some Judeo-Christian traditions, the city of Ashur (Aŝŝur) was founded by Ashur the son of Shem, who was deified by later generations as the city's patron god. Besides Ashur, the other three royal Assyrian cities were Calah (Nimrud), Khorsabad, and Nineveh. This region seems to have been ruled from Sumer, Akkad, and northern Babylonia in its earliest stages, being part of Sargon the Great's empire. Destroyed by barbarians in the Gutian pe ...

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Warren County Virginia - Incorporated Towns. Front Royal Warren County Virginia - Unincorporated Communities. Bentonville Browntown Buckton Cedarville Howellsville Karo Limeton Linden Milldale Nineveh Overall Reliance Riverton ...

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Of the early history of the kingdom of Assyria, little is positively known. According to some Judeo-Christian traditions, the city of Ashur (also spelled Assur or Aššur) was founded by Ashur the son of Shem, who was deified by later generations as the city's patron god. Besides Ashur, the other three royal Assyrian cities were Calah (Nimrud), Khorsabad, and Nineveh. This region seems to have been ruled from Sumer, Akkad, and northern Babylonia in its earliest stages, being part of Sargon the Great's empire. Destroyed by barba ...

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The Book of Jonah is primarily a story about the character of Yahweh. As such, it can be divided into four sections, roughly divided by each chapter: (1) Yahweh’s sovereignty, (2) Yahweh’s deliverance, (3) Yahweh’s mercy, and (4) Yahweh’s righteousness. It may also be outlined in the following manner: Yahweh’s 1st commission and Jonah’s rebellion Yahweh’s deliverance toward Jonah and Jonah’s prayer of thanksgiving Yahweh’s 2nd commission and Jonah’s obedience Yahweh’s deliverance toward Nineveh and Jona ...

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Izdubar (Babylonian) An ancient hero of Erech, whose exploits are recorded in the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the most important literary works to have been excavated in Nineveh, coming from the royal collection of Assurbanipal (668-26 BC), in the form of twelve tablets (although not all are completely preserved). The hero's name, written ideographically, was formerly read Izdubar, until another fragment of the same cycle gave the rendition Gilgamesh. (See ref from Ishdubar) See GILGAMESH.

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The origin and history of the Medes is quite obscure, as we possess almost no contemporary information, and not a single monument or inscription from Media itself. The story that Ctesias gave (a list of nine kings, beginning with Arbaces, who is said to have destroyed Nineveh about 880 BC, preserved in Diod. ii. 32 sqq. and copied by many later authors) has no historical value whatever; though some of his names may be derived from local traditions. Josephus relates the Medes (OT Heb. Madai) to the biblical character, Madai, son of Jap ...

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Assyria for a very long time were vicious overlords of the Fertile Crescent. They were ferocious fighters and were well known for their barbaric acts which caused great fear in all the surrounding nations. Only God himself had saved the city of Jerusalem from Sennacherib by intervening and causing a plague to strike down the Assyrian army that was laying siege to the city (701 BC). The northern kin ...

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The most noteworthy outcome of this system in the realm of religious practice was, as already intimated, the growth of an elaborate and complicated method of divining the future by the observation of the phenomena in the heavens. It is significant that in the royal collection of cuneiform literature, made by King Assur-bani-pal of Assyria (668 – 626 BCE) and deposited in his palace at Nineveh, the omen collections connected w ...

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There can be considered to have been four periods in the development of the Babylonian-Assyrian religion: the oldest period from c. 3500 BCE to the time of Hammurabi (c. 1700 BCE) the post-Hammurabic period in Babylonia the Assyrian period (c. 1365 BCE) to the destruction of Nineveh in 612 BCE the neo-Babylonian period, beginning with Nabopolassar (625 BCE– 605 BCE), the first independent ruler under whom Babylonia inaugurates a new though short-lived era of power and prosperity, which ends with Cyru ...

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Many ancient cultures collected works of philosophy, theology and sometimes finance. Most notable are the libraries in Rome, the Middle East and China. Private library - Middle East. The Middle East is home to the oldest library collections. Ancient Mesopotamia housed a building with about 30,000 clay tablets that date back more than 5,000 years. The ancient Egyptian cities of Amarna and Thebes had collections of papyrus scrolls from 1300-1200 BCE. In Nineveh, the Assyrian capital, the palace of King Sennacheriband (704-681 BCE) housed thousands of clay tablets. ...

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There can be considered to have been four periods in the development of the Babylonian-Assyrian religion: the oldest period from c. 3500 BCE to the time of Hammurabi (c. 1700 BCE) the post-Hammurabic period in Babylonia the Assyrian period (c. 1365 BCE) to the destruction of Nineveh in 612 BCE the neo-Babylonian period, beginning with Nabopolassar (625 BCE– 605 BCE), the first independent ruler under whom Babylonia inaugurates a new though short-lived era of power and prosperity, which ends with Cyru ...

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The most noteworthy outcome of this system in the realm of religious practice was, as already intimated, the growth of an elaborate and complicated method of divining the future by the observation of the phenomena in the heavens. It is significant that in the royal collection of cuneiform literature, made by King Assur-bani-pal of Assyria (668 – 626 BCE) and deposited in his palace at Nineveh, the omen collections ...

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Conflicting opinions appear pertaining to the name Some believe it derives from the Syriac word Alqushtti that means my god is my arrow. Others interpret it as Alqushtta, the god of justice. Yet some others believe it comes from Alqush, the red bird. Some contend it belongs to the name AalQoun, father of Nahum the Alqushian, one of the Old Testament prophets which his tomb still in Alqush today. Some also radically claim that the name is originally Turkish simply because the colony has be ...

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Assur (Chaldean or Assyrian) (from a-shir leader)

Also Asur, Ashur. Originally the titular deity of an ancient Assyrian city of learning on the Tigris, but with the rise of the Assyrian Empire his prominence was extended so that he became one of the foremost gods of the Assyrian pantheon. The title Asir was also given to other important deities such as Marduk and Nebo.

Like Marduk, Assur was first recognized as a solar deity and represented in symbol with the adjunct of the winged disk; but later he became a god of war, so that the winged disk took a minor place under the figure of a man with a bow. Assur remained the chief deity even when the Assyrian capital was moved to Nineveh about the 8th century BC, although he was obliged to share this honor with Ishtar, then regarded as his consort, until the fall of the Assyrian Empire (606 BC).

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Jonah, Jonas yonah (Hebrew) Dove; a Hebrew prophet, son of Amitai, about whom the Bible story relates that he heard the voice of the Lord commanding him to go to Nineveh and cry out against the city because of its wickedness.

But instead of following the command, Jonah set off upon a vessel bound to Jaffa, was subsequently cast overboard and swallowing by a "big fish," in which he remains three days. This is reminiscent of the three days allotted to the initiation experience, and also of the fact that fish is a mystery-term imbodying the idea of either an advanced adept whose consciousness swims in the ether of space or, as in this place, an emblem of the initiation chamber. Further, primitive Christians often spoke of Jesus as the big fish and of themselves as little fishes (pisciculi).

Mystically, there is likewise another convergence of ancient esoteric symbolic ideas, as Jonah means "dove," which has always been an emblem of the spirit or cosmically of the Second Logos; thus a dove or initiated human being entered for three days into a big fish, and upon the expiration of this term was again cast forth. Like all such mystery-tales, several different deductions may be drawn. Thus W. Q. Judge interprets the story as an astronomical cycle (Ocean 122).

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