Articles on Ancient History

[debbieloslo]

found this great site that is archiving ancient history, while searching for
information on mesopotamia, ancient iraq.

snip from the "sumerian king list":

after the kingship descended from heaven, the kingship was in eridu.
in eridu, alulim became king; he ruled for 28,800 years.
alalgar ruled for 36,000 years.
two kings; they ruled for 64800 years.

link to article within the livius website:
http://www.livius.org/k/kinglist/sumerian.html

i love the first line: after the kingship descended from heaven, the kingship was in eridu.

now, my question of course is, what exactly is a kingship. but i think we all know what it was, so why cannot more people grasp this reality? :confused:

love & peace

[Happystrings]

whoa! who knew this stuff?

new to me and fascinating.

thanks for a great post.

[Berry Chastain]

debbie,
i find this interesting because as one goes through the list, you find "after the flood" there is a king called masda son of atab.

then 3 dynasties later there appears the name gilgames whose father was invisible (!?) and finally and not surprisingly 13 dynasties later the name ibrarnum shows up.

the very interesting part of these names is that masda is the original name for the persiain/zoroastrian god, ahura mazda which was supposedly the creator of the other gods. gilgames is doubless the character and hero known as gilagamesh in the epic of gilgamesh also of the zoroastrian religion.

now we all should remember that abraham, originally abram, came out of ur. the similarity in names to ibrarnum is striking and although that king was under the gutium dynasty it was still within a reasonable period of time that the kingship was returned to ur.

the other thing i was taken with is the extreme age of the original kings and the gradual decline of age/length of rule as the time went on. i think sitchin would comment that the earlier kings were no doubt anunaki whose life spans were of very great duration.

thanks for this interesting bit of history.
l&l
berry

[Ladan]

russian expedition of divers-explorers, lead by andrey makarevich explores 80-100 feet high underwater manmade structure that composes a temple-pyramid yonaguni. this is the best underwater footage in existence so far that i came across with about the legendary site. andrey commenting their "manmade" discoveries in russian (i did not translate footage with adding english subtitles-translation), but just watching the footage one would come to the realization of the presence of manmade artifacts and constructions, including the head. the site included a square-shaped structure covered with coral, a giant platform with edges and corners, as well as streets, stairways, and an arched building. one could say that the ruins resembled an altar in the ancient city.
please, read the information side bar (7 parts):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ur--rxde8e&feature=related

enjoy!

[alexa100]

hi,
i just came across the greek word planetos (planets) which translated into english means "wanderers".

who would have thought. :)

http://www.astunit.com/tutorials/greek.htm

[quantim]

http://kmarasakatla.org/earth/ancienttexts.html

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earth history from the ancient texts
and
it’s relevance to the science

karunakar marasakatla
date: 18th august, 2002

summary
ancient descriptions of beginning of the earth and the global deluge are relevant to the earth history. beginning of the earth or beginning of the time appears to be the beginning of the supercontinent cycle on the surface of the earth around 2800 million years ago. since then, six supercontinent cycles were completed on the surface of the earth and the present is the seventh cycle. global deluge appears to be the description of the rise in sea level occurred with the breakup of each supercontinent. therefore global deluge occurs in the beginning of every supercontinent cycle. descriptions of the manvantara cycles, seven earths and seven karshvars are similar to the supercontinent cycles.

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author's homepage:
http://kmarasakatla.org

the use of ancient texts as evidence - interpreted as a type of older scientific record, shrouded in the metaphors of the age - rather than dismissing them as "primitive beliefs" is (thankfully) a trend that is increasing.