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Excellent analysis on Hamlets Mil
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#GrahamHancock is on the frontline exposing difficult questions of the Younger Dryas Impact Theory!

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CREATION MYTHS
In Egypt, a variety of religious traditions existed side by side
In each temple, priests explained the creation of the world
differently. In the temple of Aswan, they believed that the world
had been made on a potter's wheel by the ram god Khnum
According to the priests of Heliopolis, the god Atum created the
world out of the primordial waters. Atum's son Shu (the god of
air and light) then separated heaven (Nut) and earth (Geb)
The priests in Memphis wrote that the city god Ptah had made
everything by speaking its name.

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You may think that handbags are a modern obsession.

But it’s been claimed that ancient sculptures from several different cultures show deities clutching the same sort of accessory.

It’s been claimed the unusual bits of luggage appears on sculptures made by Assyrians in modern-day Iraq as well as depictions of a god race called the Annukia made by the Sumerian civilisation living nearby.

Aart showing the God Quetzalcoatl in ancient Mexico and even etchings found at the ancient religious site Turkey Göbekli Tepe appear to feature similar bags.
#grahamhancock #mesoamerica #quetzalcoatl

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The ancient ruins of La Quemada, a stunning highlight of Zacate
Just 35 miles from the capital city of Zacatecas, the ancient ruins of La Quemada are an obligated stop when traveling through this beautiful state in northern Mexico. Here's everything you need to know about this archaeological site before visiting.

lost in the wind

The most valuable information about La Quemada has been lost to the effects of wind and rain over time. Also, just like their contemporaries in the humongous Teotihuacan, the people that inhabited this city had not yet developed a written language.

What we do know is that the site's heyday was between 500 and 800 AD The inhabitants had certainly mastered agriculture and had cultural and religious interests. Some historians believe it was a sort of gateway to the world of nomad tribes in the north. Others, that it was the northernmost settlement of the Teotihuacan empire.

Perhaps the most accepted proposition is that La Quemada which, of course, wasn't it's real name, was a stopping point for the many people that were constantly migrating from the wild desert life to the civilizations of central Mexico. At some point, the whole thing was burnt to ashes and abandoned, with only a few buildings surviving the catastrophe

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Urartu, ancient country of southwest Asia centred in the mountainous region southeast of the Black Sea and southwest of the Caspian Sea. Today the region is divided among Armenia, eastern Turkey, and northwestern Iran. Mentioned in Assyrian sources from the early 13th century bce, Urartu enjoyed considerable political power in the Middle East in the 9th and 8th centuries bce. The Urartians were succeeded in the area in the 6th century bce by the Armenians.The Assyrian influence was manifested in two phases: first, from about 1275 bce to 840, when the Assyrians campaigned in Urartian territory and met only scattered resistance; and second, from 840 to 612, during the heyday of the Urartian kingdom. In the first phase, Assyrian influence was felt directly, and the local inhabitants were helplessly exposed to ruthless depredation at the hands of the Assyrians. During that time, the Urartians seem to have eagerly absorbed or imitated the amenities of Assyria’s higher civilization. In the second phase, Urartu produced its own distinctive counterparts to all Assyrian achievements.The first century of the new kingdom seems to have emphasized military operations in imitation of Assyria, and Urartu waged relentless warfare on its neighbours to the east, west, and north.For the reign of Sarduri I (c. 840–830 bce), there remain only the inscriptions at Van. But for the reigns of his son Ishpuini (c. 830–810) and especially of Ishpuini’s son Meinua (c. 810–781), Urartian conquests can be measured indirectly from widespread inscriptions ranging from the lower Murat River basin (around Elâziğ) in the west to the Aras (Araks, Araxes) River (i.e., from Erzurum to Mount Ararat) in the north and to the south shore of Lake Urmia in the southeast. Ardini, or Muṣaṣir, once conquered by Tiglath-pileser I of Assyria about 1100, now became part of the Urartian sphere of influence. The temple of Haldi at Ardini was richly endowed by the Urartian kings but was open to Assyrian worshipers.A number of Urartian inscriptions dealing with religious subjects date to the end of Ishpuini’s reign. It seems that the state religion received its established form at that time, and the hierarchy of the many gods in the Urartian pantheon is expressed by a list of sacrifices due them.The first evidence of engineering projects, designed to increase the productivity of the home country by irrigation, dates to the reign of Meinua. That is the “Canal of Meinua,” which led—and still leads—fresh water over a distance of about 28 miles (45 km) from an abundant spring to the southern edge of Van.From the reigns of Meinua’s son Argishti I (c. 780–756) and grandson Sarduri II (c. 755–735) there is, in addition to inscriptions, a direct historical source in the form of annals carved into the rock of Van and into stelae that were displaced in later times to other locations in the vicinity. Under those kings, Urartu thrust out westward to the great bend of the Euphrates River and intermittently beyond, toward Melitene (modern Malatya) and the ancient Syrian district of Commagene, thus cutting off one of the main supply roads by which Assyria obtained essential iron from the western Taurus Mountains. Argishti I subdued the Melitene Hilaruada (c. 777), as did Sarduri II in the 750s. King Kushtashpi of Commagene was subjugated by Sarduri II about 745. Part of the domain of King Tuate of Tabal in the Taurus Mountains had also fallen to Argishti I about 777. For a short time Urartu thus had a bridgehead west of the Euphrates from Malatya to Halfeti (ancient Halpa) in Commagene, and its empire reached to within 20 miles (32 km) of Aleppo in northern Syria.Argishti and Sarduri also embarked on what was in the end to prove the most fruitful of all Urartian ventures: the conquest and subsequent agricultural exploitation of the regions across the Aras River. Under Argishti I, Diauehi (“the Land of the Sons of Diau”; Assyrian: Daiaeni) was finally defeated, and the upper and middle Aras River valley became a major centre of building, irrigation, and agricultural activity. Sarduri added Lakes Çildir and Sevan. Further advance to the northwest was checked by a new adversary, the kingdom of Qulha (Greek: Colchis). The tens of thousands of prisoners taken on the yearly military campaigns (in one year as many as 39,000) provided the manpower for intensive cultivation of the royal estates and processing of their crops.Several times the Urartian kings of that period claimed, probably with justification, to have defeated Assyrian armies: Argishti reported victories over the Assyrians in his sixth and seventh regnal years, when he operated in the Zab and Lake Urmia areas; and Sarduri II defeated the Assyrian king Ashur-nirari V in the upper basin of the Tigris River about 753.

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