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Herodotus used a Greek form Palaistínē (Παλαιστίνη) to describe a district of Syria between Phoenicia and Egypt; classical reference works and regional histories identify his usage as the earliest cle...
Most historians and New Testament scholars conclude that who lived in first‑century Judea, though they disagree sharply about the details of his life and the theological claims made about him; this co...
The modern State of Israel was named "Israel" rather than "Judea" for reasons that combine ancient usage, evolving self-identity, and deliberate political choice during the state's founding: "Judea" i...
Benito Mussolini moved from socialist activism to founding Italian Fascism through a sequence of public breaks over World War I, shifting from party-aligned internationalism to aggressive Italian nati...
The territory commonly called Palestine has been governed at different times by local kingdoms and a long succession of empires: ancient Israelite and Philistine polities, Assyrian and Babylonian conq...
publicly frames itself as a nationwide publicity and advocacy firm that supplies trained actors and organizers to create “impactful advocacy campaigns,” from paparazzi-style celebrity experiences to o...
Iron Age religion was not a single, uniform system but a patchwork of regional practices ranging from polytheistic pantheons and ritual specialists in Europe to localized mortuary rites and plant-base...
Viriato, in Portuguese usage, is primarily the proper name of the legendary Lusitanian leader Viriathus and functions as a cultural symbol of resistance and nationhood in Portugal; as a given name it ...
Pontius Pilate, as the Roman prefect of Judaea (c. 26–36 CE), was the only official with authority to order crucifixion in Roman provinces; multiple modern scholars and reference works say Pilate “gav...
Most non-Christian professional historians accept as historical that lived in first‑century , taught, and was executed by crucifixion, and they also acknowledge early Christian claims that his tomb wa...
show that during the early Middle Ages left a measurable northern‑continental autosomal signal in , concentrated in eastern and southern , and that associated with Germanic and n source populations — ...
Ancient Egyptian inscriptions record a people or group written as P-r-s-t (commonly vocalized Peleset) in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age, and Assyrian cuneiform records later use forms like Pa...
Classical Greek sources use the toponym Παλαιστῑ́νη (Palaistínē) and adjectival forms derived from it (e.g., Palaistinós) to designate a coastal and inland district of Syria between Phoenicia and Egyp...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church preserves a broader biblical corpus than most Western churches because its Christianity took root early, developed in a distinct cultural and textual orbit, and ...
Ancient Druids were a priestly and learned class among the Celtic peoples; classical authors and some recent archaeology link certain Druids or their societies to ritual killings, including at least o...
Historical documentation for Jesus’ life after the crucifixion is extremely limited and primarily theological rather than strictly historical. Contemporary claims and archaeological findings occasiona...
A panel that begins with L47, Z9, Z2, Z8 and includes L48 places a inside haplogroup , specifically the U106 branch and its common subclade L48, meaning deep paternal ancestry tied to the U106/L48 fam...
The standing answer depends on definitions: among named prehistoric finds the so-called “ Giant” — a young male skeleton from measured at 193 cm — is described as the tallest skeleton discovered in pr...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo canon contains about 81 books (46 OT, 35 NT) and retains several works absent from most Septuagint-based traditions, notably 1 Enoch and Jubilees, because its Ge’ez Bib...
When the Hunnic wave swept through the in the 5th century it left and parts of what would become under Hunnic influence for a brief period, while the remained mostly westward but fought the on the pla...