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analog-antiquarian.net
[AI summary] This article examines the historical search for the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, detailing the excavations led by Robert Koldewey who incorrectly identified a warehouse as the Gardens, and explains why modern archaeology has found no evidence of the Wonder in Babylon. |
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historyforatheists.com
If there is a story that forms the heart of New Atheist bad history, it's the tale of the Great Library of Alexandria and its destruction by a Christian mob. It's the central moral fable of the Draper-White Thesis, where wise and rational Greeks and Romans store up all the wisdom of the pre-Christian ancient world in a single library, treasuring science and reason and bringing western civilisation to the brink of a technological and industrial revolution. But then a... Read More Read More |
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dissidentvoice.org
Faramarz Farbod: You have taught at Princeton University for four decades; you were the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in Israel (2008-2014); and you are the author of numerous books about global issues and international law. In preparation for this conversation, I have been reading your autobiography, Public Intellectual: |
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strafari.com
Bergen has the second largest population in Norway after the capital, Oslo. It's located between two of the country's most famous fjords (the Sognefjord and the Hardangerfjord), giving it the nickname "Norway's fjord capital". Bergen's second nickname - "the city of seven hills" - is due to the seven hills surrounding it. Among these is... |
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