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Taoism. Korean Taoism. Quanzhen School ("School of the Fulfilled Virtue") Shangqing School ("School of the Highest Clarity") Way of the Five Pecks of Rice. Way of the Celestial Masters. Zhengyi Dao ("Way of the Right Oneness") Syncretic Taoism. Dragon Gate Taoism.
Sea of Galilee Boat. Coordinates: 32°50′39.52″N 35°31′30.64″E. The 'Ancient Galilee Boat' housed in the Yigal Allon Museum in Kibbutz Ginosar. The Ancient Galilee Boat, also known as the Jesus Boat, is an ancient fishing boat from the 1st century AD, discovered in 1986 on the north-west shore of the Sea of Galilee in Israel.
The later kingdoms and empires of the ancient Near East had long traditions of book collecting. [15] [3] The ancient Hittites and Assyrians had massive archives containing records written in many different languages. [15] The most famous library of the ancient Near East was the Library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, founded in the seventh century ...
According to the government, this practice is meant to protect fishing stocks off the coast, but some environmentalists say that the seals actually protect the kinds of fish harvested by ...
A short section of 1 Enoch is cited in the New Testament Epistle of Jude, Jude 1:14–15, and attributed there to "Enoch the Seventh from Adam" (1 Enoch 60:8), although this section of 1 Enoch is a midrash on Deuteronomy 33:2. The full Book of Enoch only survives in its entirety in Ge'ez (Ethiopic) translation.
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa. It was concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River, situated in the place that is now the country Egypt. Ancient Egyptian civilization followed prehistoric Egypt and coalesced around 3100 BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology) [ 1 ] with the political ...
31. Hawaii, U.S. Aikau, a Hawaiian lifeguard and surfer, disappeared on 17 March 1978 when he was lost at sea while attempting to reach the island of Lanai on a surfboard. The long-distance Hawaiian outrigger, the Hōkūleʻa, on which he was a crew member, began taking on water 20 miles off Molokai.
The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of Silos.