Search results

• Humanity
  ...nd [[social sciences]]. Conventionally the humanities include [[Languages|ancient and modern languages]] and [[literature]], [[history]], [[philosophy]], [ The great traditions in [[art]] have a foundation in the art of one of the ancient civilizations:
  24 KB (3,600 words) - 01:13, 13 December 2020
• Paper 93 - Machiventa Melchizedek
  ...s also derived from the lingering [[traditions]] of the [[methods]] of the ancient [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:3._LIFE_IN_MESO ...nts promulgated by Melchizedek were [[patterned]] along the lines of the [[ancient]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:7._LIFE_IN_DA
  54 KB (8,084 words) - 01:28, 13 December 2020
• Medieval Philosophy
  ...enth century. It is defined partly by the [[process]] of rediscovering the ancient culture developed in Greece and Rome in the [[classical period]], and partl ...iod from the seventh to the twelfth century, consisting of translating the ancient philosophers, commenting upon, clarifying, interpreting and developing thei
  24 KB (3,630 words) - 01:29, 13 December 2020
• Books
  ...o the desire of humans to create lasting records. Stones could be the most ancient form of writing, but wood would be the first medium to take the guise of a ...ia of variable quality, the best being used for sacred writing. In Ancient Egypt, papyrus was used for writing maybe as early as from First Dynasty, but fir
  27 KB (4,202 words) - 23:42, 12 December 2020
• Theocracy
  ...communities, in large part as a way of accommodating its Muslim minority. Egypt was run in both monarchic and theocracy in which the [[pharaoh]] was the [[ An example often given from Antiquity is [[Pharaonic Egypt]] when the king was a divine or semi-divine figure who ruled largely throug
  21 KB (3,160 words) - 02:42, 13 December 2020
• Dance
  ...rs traces of dance from [[prehistory|prehistoric times]] such as [[ancient Egypt|Egyptian]] tomb paintings depicting dancing figures from circa 3300 BC and ...itual, abstract, and, interpretive. Regional geography has altered since [[ancient India]]'s time and so have regional varieties of Indian dances. Dances like
  21 KB (3,093 words) - 23:42, 12 December 2020
• Art History
  ===The ancient world=== ...atural History (Pliny)|Natural History]]'' concerning the development of [[Ancient Greek art|Greek sculpture and painting]]. From them it is possible to trace
  27 KB (4,116 words) - 23:42, 12 December 2020
• Genesis
  ...plagues, so that he returns Sarai and expels Abram and all his people from Egypt.[https://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=RsvGene.sgm&images=images .../modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=15&division=div1 Genesis 15.] The "river of Egypt", traditionally identified not with the Nile but with Wadi el Arish in the
  50 KB (8,253 words) - 00:37, 13 December 2020
• Paper 64 - The Evolutionary Races
  ...of flintworking, which they [[transmitted]] to their [[descendants]], the ancient [[ancestors]] of the [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimos Eskimos]. ....org/wiki/Nile_valley Nile valley] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt Egypt]. This long-drawn-out battle was waged for almost one hundred years, and at
  55 KB (8,378 words) - 01:27, 13 December 2020
• 64:6 The Six Sangik Races of Urantia
  ....org/wiki/Nile_valley Nile valley] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt Egypt]. This long-drawn-out battle was waged for almost one hundred years, and at ...n were mostly confined to this southern or [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt Egyptian] nation.
  18 KB (2,670 words) - 23:32, 12 December 2020
• Civilization
  In the 6th century, the [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] [[Emperor Justinian]] oversaw the consolidation of Roman [[Civ ...the Uruk phase Guillermo Algaze has argued that trade relations connected Egypt, Mesopotamia, Iran and Afghanistan. Royal Tombs of [Ur] it is suggested was
  43 KB (6,155 words) - 23:41, 12 December 2020
• Time
  An [[Egypt]]ian device dating to c.[[1500 BCE]], similar in shape to a bent [[T-square ...the ancient world were the [[waterclock]] or ''clepsydra'', first found in Egypt. A waterclock was found in the tomb of [[pharaoh]] [[Amenhotep I]] (1525 -
  27 KB (4,252 words) - 02:42, 13 December 2020
• Orality
  ...rsity Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1963. In other societies, such as [[ancient Egypt]] or [[medieval Europe]], literacy has been a domain confined to political ...patterns, gestures and the bilateral symmetry of the human body in several ancient verse traditions.cited in Ong, p. 34. Marcel Jousse. ''Le Parlant, la par
  19 KB (2,801 words) - 01:22, 13 December 2020
• Chemistry
  ...als (e.g. [[History of metallurgy in the Indian subcontinent|metallurgy in ancient India]]). The greed for gold led to the discovery of the process for its pu ...ufactured hundreds of [[drug]]s. Alchemy, which the Muslims inherited from Egypt, contributed to chemistry by a thousand incidental discoveries, and by its
  40 KB (5,819 words) - 23:42, 12 December 2020
• 2010-08-01-Long View Project-Dialogue 25
  ...that would be akin to their current methods of construction. However, the ancient pyramids of your world, particularly the great pyramid of Cheops, were not
  13 KB (2,304 words) - 21:09, 28 September 2011
• Magic
  ...Magi of Zoroastrianism, and their reputation together with that of Ancient Egypt shaped the [[hermeticism]] of [[Hellenistic religion]]. The Greek mystery religions had strongly magical components, and in Egypt, a large number of magical [[Papyrus|papyri]], in Greek, [[Coptic]], and De
  47 KB (7,281 words) - 01:20, 13 December 2020
• God
  ...'') as ultimately cognate with Latin ''fumus'' for "smoke," related to the ancient usage of "vapour" or "breath" to symbolize [[spirit]] — for example the H ...a title of honor for bishops and patriarchs in some Christian churches of Egypt, Syria, and Ethiopia. [https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Abba dicdef] Accor
  33 KB (4,925 words) - 23:57, 12 December 2020
• Alchemy
  ...adition: in China to Taoism, in India to Yoga and Tantrism, in Hellenistic Egypt to gnōsis, in Islamic countries to Hermetic and esoteric mystical schools, ...recipes is abundantly documented in China and in India, as well as in the ancient Near East and Greece. Even so late an author as Galen warns one of his disc
  17 KB (2,706 words) - 23:41, 12 December 2020
• Book of Daniel
  ...s proto-canonical portions. In the Septuagint, the Vulgate, and many other ancient and modern translations of the Bible, it comprises both its proto- and its and one that was ancient of days took his seat;
  61 KB (11,372 words) - 23:45, 12 December 2020
• Nazareth
  ...logist at the venerated sites in Nazareth, unearthed quantities of later [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] and [[Byzantine]] artefacts, (B. Bagatti, ''Excavations in Naz ...]], [[Babylonian]], [[Persian Empire|Persian]], [[Hellenist]]ic or Early [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] times (see above), at least in the major excavations between 1
  29 KB (4,373 words) - 01:22, 13 December 2020

View (previous 20 | next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)