Biblical Archaeology
The discovery of the stone. For many centuries travelers
to Egypt saw on the ruins of ancient
temples, palaces, or tombs, or on the walls, pillars, or
ceilings of old buildings, many inscriptions
which were in the old hieroglyphic or pictorial language
of old Egypt, which no scholar knew
how to read. When Napoleon invaded the land of Egypt in
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Dating a city-level. The giving of a date to each
occupational level is largely determined by the
remnants of pottery found there. It was Sir Flinders Petrie,
about the turn of the century, who
discovered that each archaeological period had its own
typical pottery. Thus he was the first to
state the principle that the successive levels of occupa...
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Perfecting the text of the inscription. The text of King
Darius` mountainside writing has been
perfected by several more recent efforts to climb the
precipitous cliffs. In 1903 Professor A. V.
Williams Jackson, of Columbia University, climbed the
rock to check the passages that were in
doubt by scholars, and he for the first time took
pictures ...
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The science of uncovering a buried city. The early pioneers
in archaeology had not developed the
scientific methods that have been used by the twentieth-
century excavators. Now it is customary
for each occupational level of earth to be removed and
everything found in it recorded before the
next deepest level is uncovered. Everything found is alw...
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Ira M. Price, The Monuments and the Old Testament, ed. 1925,
pp. 15-17;
J. A. Hammerton,
ed., The Wonders of the Past, ed. 1937, pp. 250, 251.
George G. Cameron, "Darius Carved History on Ageless Rock,"
The National Geographic
Magazine, Dec. 1950, pp. 825-844....
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Ira M. Price, The Monuments and the Old Testament, ed. 1925,
pp. 15-17;
J. A. Hammerton,
ed., The Wonders of the Past, ed. 1937, pp. 250, 251.
George G. Cameron, "Darius Carved History on Ageless Rock,"
The National Geographic
Magazine, Dec. 1950, pp. 825-844....
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Geography of Modern Iraq
LOCATION & GEOGRAPHY: Iraq is located in the Middle East. It is bound by Iran to the east, Turkey to the north, Syria to the northwest, Jordan to the west, Saudi Arabia to the southwest and south as well as Kuwait and the Persian Gulf to the southeast. The country can be divided into four main topographical regions.
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Events Surrounding the Time Period of Jehu
Elijah and Elisha.
Elijah's ministry was nearing its end and so he anointed the young Elisha to be a prophet in Israel for the Lord. It was at this time that Ahab was king over the northern kingdom of Israel. he time period was around 850 B.C.
Naboth's Vineyard.
King Ahab lusted after Naboth's beautifu...
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Assyrian annals mention contacts with some nine Hebrew kings: Omri, Ahab, Jehu, Menahem, Pekah, Uzziah, Ahaz, Hezekiah, and Manasseh.
During the reign of Hoshea, king of Israel, Shalmaneser V, king of Assyria, invaded Israel (2 Kings 17:3,5) the kingdom that remained. His successor Sargon II finally took Samaria in 722 BC, carrying away 27,290 ...
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Geography of Ancient Assyria.
Ancient Assyria was generally the northern half of Mesopotamia, while the southern half was generally referred to as Babylonia. The word "Mesopotamia" comes to us from ancient Greece and means the land "between the rivers", referring to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The region around ancient Assyria was filled with ...
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