Crescent City

What makes the story of Noah so captivating? Possibly the perspective of a widespread flood, or maybe that the story is considered unique to the Old Testament. However, what if I told you that the story of a global flood is not unique to the Old Testament, but it is in fact a story told in many different cultures. This is the case with the Old Testament, and the ancient Mesopotamian story the Epic of Gilgamesh. Although the two stories share many similarities, the flood stories in both piece of…

language and the location of Mesopotamia is land near between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers which in present-day are across in countries of most of Iraq, Kuwait, and Eastern part of Syria. Mesopotamia was place where the human beings began to develop cities, animal domestication, and other important developments that started for the first time in human history. The Epic…

Hezekiah’s Tunnel is also referred to as the Siloam Tunnel, a conduit for water supply that is a part of Jerusalem’s water system, it is said to be about 1750 feet long and runs under the City of David connecting Gihon’s Spring with the Siloam Pool. It is believed the tunnel was dug during the reign of King Hezekiah of Judah in preparation for the attack from Sennacherib according to 2 Chronicles 32:2-4 and 2 Kings 20:20. According to Avraham Faust, A Note on Hezekiah’s Tunnel and the Siloam…

and dates, and the abundant harvests supported increased populations. Abundant food supplies also allowed some people to perform tasks not associated with agriculture. The Sumerians built the world’s first cities around 4000 BCE and with these established the urban-rural divide. These cities were…

love, the hunt, war and marriage. Cuneiform is the first written language on clay tablets and the ancestor of all Western written languages. Epic of Gilgamesh written in Cuneiform is the tale about King Gilgamesh ruled Uruk which was one of the five Cities of Sumerians. Even though the Epic of Gilgamesh is very old, its meaning is still valuable in nowadays. The tale gives prominence to the friendship,…

point of interest for historians of the ancient past as it sports a rich history of human civilization and growth. The history of ancient Mesopotamia largely begins around 4000 BCE wherein a “cultural shift” occurred wherein people began to reside in cities as opposed to solely agricultural societies (Stockstad 28). It is around this period, that it is believed the Sumerian civilization took root, a civilization credited with major technological breakthroughs including Cuneiform writing, the…

Humans were believed to be nomadic in the past. Their primary source of living was hunting and gathering so they had no permanent settlement. Though the reason was not very clear, humans eventually developed agrarian societies. People learned to cultivate lands and agriculture became their source of livelihood. This led to the development of technology in producing food. Eventually, they decided that some humans could work as farmers while others focused on other jobs like constructing…

Early humans in the Lower Paleolithic Age lived in assorted habitats which allowed them to gather seafood, nuts,eggs, and fruits not collected by scavenging. Hunting and gathering was thought to be the main strategy used by human societies to collect food about 1.8 million years ago, and from its re-appearance about 0.2 million years ago. It remained the only way of collecting food until the end of the Mesolithic period about 10,000 years ago. Beginning in transition between the Middle to Upper…

do have pigs but they don't provide milk or work. In the Fertile Crescent the civilizations are able to domesticate cows because they are able to grow wheat. In order for an animal to be domesticated it has to be: a herbivore, reach sexual maturity in 1 year , have some type of social hierarchy, mellow temperament where there's no danger towards the human, and at least 100 lbs. to get a reasonable amount of meat. The Fertile Crescent are able to domesticate sheep, cows, goats, pigs, and horses.…

Dynastic (ED) period in Mesopotamia. At this time period they saw the first empires in the ancient Near East, and Ebla was usefully founded between coastal Syria and northern Mesopotamian cities. Exploiting on this location, rulers of Ebla created pacts with neighboring towns and placed tariffs on goods arriving to the city. Many of the extravagant goods were meant for the royal household; Podany describes the contents and effects of a discreet letter written to the king of Ebla by the king of…