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Road to Raqqa: Long struggle looms in battle for ISIS heartland

Edit CNN 30 May 2016

(CNN)Two competing alliances are closing in on the Syrian city of Raqqa -- the emblem and administrative powerhouse of ISIS ... airstrikes is attacking from the north ... Why Raqqa matters. JUST WATCHED ... It's not the first time in history that Raqqa (a swamp or bog in Arabic) has been 'on the map.' In the late 8th century Haroun al Rashid made Raqqa the capital of his Caliphate, which encompassed much of North Africa as well as Iraq and Syria....

Exploring the ancient cultures of the Verde Valley of Arizona

Edit The Examiner 29 May 2016

Just north of Phoenix, Arizona you'll find the Verde Valley. While many go there to enjoy the Verde Valley Wine Trail, there are mysteries to be discovered in the remnants of the ancient cultures of the area. The people that settled this Valley came for the water and the rich life along the river ... Montezuma Castle isn't a castle at all ... Montezuma Well's outflow has been used for irrigation since the 8th century ... 1000 ... Photos Copyright....

Things to know about Mount Athos: 1,500 monks, no women

Edit The Miami Herald 27 May 2016

On Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin will go to the Monastery of St ... Here are some things to know about Mount Athos ... Monks first settled there before the 8th century, and the first monastery was founded in the 10th century ... The EU has contributed substantial funds for the conservation and restoration of its buildings and their treasures, which include centuries-old wall-paintings and icons, manuscripts and religious artifacts ... ....

Take 5: The science of doping in sports (Northeastern University)

Edit Public Technologies 25 May 2016

(Source. Northeastern University). Reports of doping by Russia's Olympic athletes continue to grab headlines ... But doping in sports is not new. As early as the 8th century B.C., Greek athletes were finding ways to boost testosterone to enhance performance ... Image by YoungHee Jang/Northeastern University ... What exactly is doping? ... As early as the 8th century B.C., ancient Greek Olympians ate sheep's testicles to enhance performance ... (noodl....

Israel Returns Smuggled Antiquities to Egypt

Edit Voa News 23 May 2016

Israel returned two smuggled ancient sarcophagus covers back to Egypt Sunday, a sign of warmer relations between the two neighbors. Israeli authorities say one of the lids dates back to the 16th to 14th centuries BC, while the other goes back to between the 10th and 8th centuries ... The wooden lids were smuggled to Dubai, brought to London, and ended up in an Jerusalem antiques store, where Israeli authorities found them in 2012 ... ....

Ancient sarcophagi returned to Egypt (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel)

Edit Public Technologies 22 May 2016

(Source. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel) (Communicated by the MFA Spokesperson) ... The artifacts consist of two covers of Egyptian sarcophagi. One of the covers is dated to the period between the 10th and 8th centuries BCE (the Iron Age) and the other is dated between the 16th and 14th centuries BCE (the Late Bronze Age) ... In order to transfer the items, several bureaucratic procedures had to be completed ... (noodl....

Greenpeace activists scale British Museum to protest BP sponsorship

Edit The Guardian 19 May 2016

Museum temporarily closes as activists hang huge banners renaming the new BP-sponsored Sunken Cities Egypt exhibition as ‘Sinking Cities’. @adamvaughan_uk ... The museum has temporarily closed because of the protest ... The Sunken Cities exhibition, which is sponsored by BP, hosts treasures from Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus, two cities lost to the sea by the 8th century ... ....

Into the deep of Egypt's Atlantis

Edit The National 18 May 2016

It is thought both were founded around the 7th century BC and flourished ... But around the 8th century AD, the seas reclaimed the cities and they lay submerged at the mouth of the River Nile....

Archaeology of the Undead

Edit The Atlantic 18 May 2016

The approach of ramming something firmly in a corpse’s open jaw has been observed both in 8th-century Irish “zombie burials” and the grave of the “Vampire of Venice,” a 16th-century skeleton disinterred from a plague cemetery with a large sized brick wedged between the teeth ... His project covered the whole of Western Europe from the first to fifth centuries, confirming that deviant burials can be discovered well beyond Britain....

Narmada's lore

Edit Deccan Herald 14 May 2016

With a plethora of temples dotting it landscape, most of them dating back from the 8th century, Amarkantak is often referred to as teerthraj or ‘king of pilgrimages’ ... ‘Amarkantak’, perhaps derives from Amrakoota, as Kalidasa, the 5th century Sanskrit poet, referred to the place in his lyrical poem Meghadootam, for, it was ridden with mango (amra) trees....

Bene Israel community in India carries Jewish gene

Edit The Times of India 12 May 2016

Washington D.C. ... "Almost nothing is known about the Bene Israel community before the 18th century, when Cochin Jews and later Christian missionaries first came into contact with it," says researcher Yedael Waldman ... Eran Halperin ... But others still believe their Jewish ancestors arrived as early as the 8th century BCE ... ....

The end of corruption in Pakistan: A seismological analysis

Edit Dawn 12 May 2016

‘in the century to come, there shall rise a so-called faithful republic in which elected (thus corrupt) regimes of wrongful mans and womans would openly claim, ‘Eye to eye, eye to eye, my eyes, your eyes …’ ... ‘You see,’ explained Zia, ‘Pakistan was created by the great diplomat, swordsman and horse breeder, Ubaid Yamani, an officer in Bin Qasim’s forces that invaded Sindh in the 8th century....

Third Day of ‘Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life’ in Osaka (The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama)

Edit Public Technologies 12 May 2016

(Source. The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama). Osaka, Japan, 12 May 2016 - After several days of cloud and rain, Osaka awoke today to bright sunlight streaming through the windows and bright blue skies overhead ... 'Today I want to tell you about the Stages of the Path tradition,' he began once he had sat down. 'In the 8th century Shantarakshita came to Tibet at the invitation of the Emperor Trisong Detsen ... And continues. ... (noodl....

8th Century Indian Ocean Trade

Be Thou my Vision - 8th Century Irish Hymm performed by Robin Mark --Lyrics

Chants de l'Eglise de Rome - Resurrexi - (8th century)

Baghdad in 8th century - from the PBS documentary: Empire of Faith

8th Century Albigensian Baptists: Rise of Islam and Rome's Persecution

Be Thou My Vision - Ancient Irish Hymn from 8th Century by 4Him

8th century Kerala mosque finally lets women in. But conditions apply

8th Century Kerala Mosque allows women to enter its portal - Dinamalar Apr 25th 2016

8th Century Hymnography

8th century Kerala mosque finally opens for women

The Bodhicaryāvatāra by Śāntideva (~8th century)

FB 8th century Kerala mosque finally opens for women

8th Century Indian Ocean Trade

Be Thou my Vision - 8th Century Irish Hymm performed by Robin Mark --Lyrics

Chants de l'Eglise de Rome - Resurrexi - (8th century)

Baghdad in 8th century - from the PBS documentary: Empire of Faith

8th Century Albigensian Baptists: Rise of Islam and Rome's Persecution

Be Thou My Vision - Ancient Irish Hymn from 8th Century by 4Him

8th century Kerala mosque finally lets women in. But conditions apply

8th Century Kerala Mosque allows women to enter its portal - Dinamalar Apr 25th 2016

8th Century Hymnography

8th century Kerala mosque finally opens for women

The Bodhicaryāvatāra by Śāntideva (~8th century)

FB 8th century Kerala mosque finally opens for women

8th Century Indian Ocean Trade

Be Thou my Vision - 8th Century Irish Hymm performed by Robin Mark --Lyrics

Chants de l'Eglise de Rome - Resurrexi - (8th century)

Baghdad in 8th century - from the PBS documentary: Empire of Faith

8th Century Albigensian Baptists: Rise of Islam and Rome's Persecution

Be Thou My Vision - Ancient Irish Hymn from 8th Century by 4Him

8th century Kerala mosque finally lets women in. But conditions apply

8th Century Kerala Mosque allows women to enter its portal - Dinamalar Apr 25th 2016

8th Century Hymnography

8th century Kerala mosque finally opens for women

The Bodhicaryāvatāra by Śāntideva (~8th century)

FB 8th century Kerala mosque finally opens for women

8th Century Indian Ocean Trade

Be Thou my Vision - 8th Century Irish Hymm performed by Robin Mark --Lyrics

Chants de l'Eglise de Rome - Resurrexi - (8th century)

Baghdad in 8th century - from the PBS documentary: Empire of Faith

8th Century Albigensian Baptists: Rise of Islam and Rome's Persecution

Be Thou My Vision - Ancient Irish Hymn from 8th Century by 4Him

8th century Kerala mosque finally lets women in. But conditions apply

8th Century Kerala Mosque allows women to enter its portal - Dinamalar Apr 25th 2016

8th Century Hymnography

8th century Kerala mosque finally opens for women

The Bodhicaryāvatāra by Śāntideva (~8th century)

FB 8th century Kerala mosque finally opens for women

8th Century Indian Ocean Trade...

Be Thou my Vision - 8th Century Irish Hymm perform...

Chants de l'Eglise de Rome - Resurrexi - (8th cent...

Baghdad in 8th century - from the PBS documentary:...

8th Century Albigensian Baptists: Rise of Islam an...

Be Thou My Vision - Ancient Irish Hymn from 8th Ce...

8th century Kerala mosque finally lets women in. B...

8th Century Kerala Mosque allows women to enter it...

8th Century Hymnography...

8th century Kerala mosque finally opens for women...

The Bodhicaryāvatāra by Śāntideva (~8th centur...

FB 8th century Kerala mosque finally opens for w...

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