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The Scythians originated in Central Asia possibly around the 9th century BC, and they arrived in the Caucasian Steppe in the 8th and 7th centuries BC as part of a significant movement of the nomadic peoples of the Eurasian Steppe. This movement started when another nomadic Iranian tribe closely related to the Scythians, either the Massagetae or ...
Expulsion from Paradise, painting by James Tissot (c. 1896–1902) The Expulsion illustrated in the English Junius manuscript, c. 1000 CE. The second part of the Genesis creation narrative, Genesis 2:4–3:24, opens with YHWH-Elohim (translated here "the L ORD God") creating the first man (), whom he placed in a garden that he planted "eastward in Eden":
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 ...
MAY-gog; Hebrew: גּוֹג וּמָגוֹג, romanized : Gōg ū-Māgōg) or Yajuj and Majuj ( Arabic: يَأْجُوجُ وَمَأْجُوجُ, romanized : Yaʾjūju wa-Maʾjūju) are a pair of names that appear in the Bible and the Quran, variously ascribed to individuals, tribes, or lands. In Ezekiel 38, Gog is an individual and Magog is ...
The olive tree, Olea europaea, is an evergreen tree or shrub native to Mediterranean Europe, Asia, and Africa. It is short and squat and rarely exceeds 8–15 m (25–50 ft) in height. It is short and squat and rarely exceeds 8–15 m (25–50 ft) in height.
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Described by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld as "the first non-Ptolemaic map of a definite country". [1] The Holy Land [a] is an area roughly located between the Mediterranean Sea and the eastern bank of the Jordan River, traditionally synonymous both with the biblical Land of Israel and with the region of Palestine. Today, the term "Holy Land ...
1823 map by Robert Wilkinson (see also 1797 version here). Prior to the mid-19th century, Shem was associated with all of Asia, Ham with all of Africa and Japheth with all of Europe. The Genesis flood narrative tells how Noah and his three sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, together with their wives, were saved from the Deluge to repopulate the Earth.