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Marco Polo: Land of Lapis Lazuli

2009-01-08T00:36:07Z

Excerpt from "The travels of Marco Polo."

Marco Polo: Giant Birds of Madagascar

2009-01-08T00:36:07Z

In The Travels of Marco Polo, Book 3, Chapter 33, "Of the Great Island of Madagascar," Marco relates a strange tale about giant birds who frequent the island.

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The Sumerian King List: Antediluvian Kings

2009-01-08T00:36:07Z

This list is commonly referred to as the Isin version of the Sumerian King List. The video illustrates the antediluvian section of the King List. There are many versions of The Sumerian King List. This text comes from an inscription found where the ancient Sumerian city Isin, once flourished. It is an update of earlier Sumerian king lists, adding Isins kings to Sumers royal roll call.

The list was inscribed during the reign of Damiqilishu of Isin (1816-1794 BCE). It presumed to be a list of kings from the beginning of history—when kingship was first handed down from Heaven. The inscription was made only a few years before Hammurabi of Babylon captured the city in the first half of the 18th century BCE to the emerging Babylonian Empire.

For more on this and many other texts, visit, Earth's Ancient History @ www.earth-history.com

The chronology of Mesopotamian kings, the earliest of them being mythical figures, extends from the earliest times up to the 18th century B.C. The record is found on some fifteen tablets, primarily from the archives of Nippur (cf. Thorkild Jacobsen, The Sumerian King List, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1939, and Jean-Jacques Glassner, Chroniques mésopotamiennes, Paris, Belles Lettres, 1993). Several lists exist, with the Sumerian names transcribed into Akkadian and dating from the Amorite dynasty of Larsa (ca. 1800 B.C.) or composed at Isin (ca. 1900 B.C.); the most complete text of the list is found in the collection of Weld-Blundell, and has been translated by Thorkild Jacobsen (op. cit., pp. 70-77):

Dr. Patrice Guinard: The Lists of Antediluvian Kings: A Coded Document

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A Message for Chris Matthews of TV's Hardball

2009-01-07T03:48:11Z

Despite the millions of dollars in resources at his beefy finger tips, Chris refuses use the proper name of a land he helped ravage with his amped up, pro-Bush, pro-war positions, which he trumpeted in every broadcast before and during the first years of the war. Now Chris wants to distance himself from those bleak days, but anyone with a memory or a VCR will know what he Chris really said, no matter how anti-war he may seem now.
The Assembly of Gods are pissed. Chris refuses to call Iraq, by it's proper ancient name and continually refers to Iraq as Arabia. For a guy who wants people to listen to him and take his opinions very seriously, it's seems strange that he could make such a huge mistake and even stranger there is no one around him to correct him. They don't want phone calls and they certainly don't read emails.
Mesopotamia is known as the cradle of civilization and many western traditions including some Biblical roots, have originated there. Mesopotamia's history belongs not only to Iraqis, Arabs or Kurds but to all of the inhabitants of the world. This historical value is lost every time Chris refers to this rich, ancient land as Arabia. As we all know, Arab, Muslim even Islam are words that put some Americans on guard. They worry(and rightly so) about terrorism. This type of fear, as history proves time and again, usually inspires much violence and misery. Why not concentrate on our similarities and shared beliefs? Why not acknowledge our common ground and begin from there to find a solution? Repeatedly referring to Mesopotamia as Arabia is not just a sloppy mistake and poor showmanship, it's a direct lie that misleads people every time it is uttered.
It's a shame guys like Chris start out OK, they get where they want to be, and proceed to get fat. If Chris really wanted to do a service for his countrymen, he'd consider running a ten or fifteen minute piece about the region's rich history and crucial links to our world today. Solutions to our troubles abroad will come through understanding, not fear, ignorance, bullets and bombs.

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Iraq's Lions of Mesopotamia - 24 July 07

2008-10-14T11:23:20Z

Iraq's national football team beat South Korea in Kuala Lumpur in the semi-final of the Asian Football Cup 2007.

The 'Lions of Mesopotamia' booked their place in the final of the Asian Cup by beating them 4-3 on penalties after the game finished scoreless after extra-time.

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