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While a number of biblical place names like Jerusalem, Athens, Damascus, Alexandria, Babylon and Rome have been used for centuries, some have changed over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during biblical times [1] [2] [3] or later Aramaic or Greek formations.
Karakorum (Khalkha Mongolian: Хархорум, Kharkhorum; Mongolian script: ᠬᠠᠷᠠᠬᠣᠷᠣᠮ, Qaraqorum) was the capital of the Mongol Empire between 1235 and 1260 and of the Northern Yuan dynasty in the late 14th and 15th centuries.
The Land of Kir is a location mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, where the Arameans are said to have originated. It is also the place to which Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria carried the Aramean captives after he had taken the city of Damascus and conquered the kingdom of Aram-Damascus (2 Kings 16:9; Amos 1:5; 9:7).
Kir of Moab is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of the two main strongholds of Moab, the other being Ar.It is probably the same as the city called Kir-haresh (Isaiah 16:11, KJV), Kir-hareseth (Hebrew: קִיר-חֲרֶשֶׂת; Isa 16:7), and Kir-heres (Hebrew: קִיר חָרֶשׂ; Isa 16:11; Jer 48:31, 48:36). [1]
The Karakorum Government or Confederated Republic of Altai was a republic created as an attempt to create an independent Altai. It lasted from 1918 to 1922, when it was annexed by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic .
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The museum contains 300 Mongolian imperial coins with inscriptions in arabic and phags-pa script, found in Karakorum during 2000 to 2005. The museum also contains a Buddha sculpture, a Kalavinka sculpture, as well as porcelain belonging to the time of the Yuan and Song dynasties. [5]
"The Bible's Buried Secrets" is a Nova program that first aired on PBS, on November 18, 2008. [2] According to the program's official website: "The film presents the latest archaeological scholarship from the Holy Land to explore the beginnings of modern religion and the origins of the Hebrew Bible, also know