Aramaic: The Ancient World

    In the middle of the nineteenth century, archaeologists unearthed twelve clay tablets. Around the turn of the twentieth century, archaeologists finally managed to decipher the tablets written in Akkadian, the language of ancient royalty and diplomacy. The tablets tell of the story of Gilgamesh. (1)

Hebrew and Babylonian are two different versions of hot the earth was created. Even though there are perspective of how the world was created they do have some similarities. The broad point of the two views intertwine with each other because they are more the same than different.

In Ancient times written languages had been some of the tools that they used to communicate. “The designation ‘hieroglyphics’ is a Greek word; the Egyptians referred to their writing as medu-netjer ‘the god’s words’, as they believed writing had been given to them by the great god Thoth” (Mark). The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphics were given to them as a special gifts from their god. Another thing is that they used hieroglyphics to represent their

Two cultures, Mesopotamians and Hebrew, despite being separated through time and geography, are very similar. Among these similarities were their flood stories. Both cultures felt they had displeased their God or gods, though either sin or clamor, and in anger these deities decided to flood and kill all of humankind. In both cases, the God or gods took pity on a single family, allowing them to live and prosper. Both Noah and Utnapishtim were instructed to take all animals on the boat. In the case of the Hebrews, there was a specific number of each animal that should be taken on the boat. This number was seven. The Mesopotamians emphasized this same number, but in relation to how long it rained. Obviously the dove is a sacred bird in both cultures

Did you know that the ancient Mesopotamian created cuneiform? Cuneiform was the first form of writing. It was created over 5000 years ago! Mesopotamians created Cuneiform to make trading deals. You might think in your head, why don’t they just remember it? Well, that is because if they traded a year from now the people could lie and get more of their

In his view, of all the languages written on the stone, the most important writing was the Egyptian writing. He discusses how "each scholar was eager to be the first to decipher the mysterious hieroglyphs." Giblim tells his reader that due to the important work of these

actually text and is a form of writing technique called Cuneiform. The same text that is

It’s a tradition on Rosh Hashanah, to eat a variety of random foods as symbols for the upcoming Jewish New Year.

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls has been described by numerous scholars and biblical commentators as one of the most important finds in archeological history. (Top 10 Most Important Historical Finds) The find occurred in 1947 when a Bedouin shepherd came across sealed jars in a cave containing leather scrolls. The scrolls which were subsequently brought to an antiques dealer in Bethlehem were purchased by a Syrian Orthodox Archbishop named Mar (Athanasius) Samuel. ( HYPERLINK "http://bible.org/byauthor/2658/Patrick%20Zukeran" Zukeran) He recognized that the scrolls were in Hebrew and were possibly very ancient. These scrolls were then examined by a prominent Middle East archaeologist, Dr. William Albright, and were confirmed as originating between the first and second century B.C. ( HYPERLINK "http://bible.org/byauthor/2658/Patrick%20Zukeran" Zukeran)

Weschler points out the thousands of cuneiform-engraved clay tablets that were in his friend Stopler’s office and also reflects what his friends had to say about the tablets and his experience with finding ancient information. People have always found a way to leave their mark

According to National Geographic's article on finding the remains of this warrior, the tomb found in 2015 is quite unusual. Excavators found this tomb while exploring a small stone shaft at Pylos. There lied a well preserved skeleton of a man in his thirties that was buried with over 1,400 artifacts that were on and around the body. The remains found dated to be around 1500 BC.

Numerous Bible Time places have been found, including the house of Peter, Herod’s tomb, Last Supper house, Tomb of Phillip, and countless others.

In 1799 a French soldier serving under Napoleon, found a black slab engraved with ancient writings north of Alexandria. The unevenly shaped stone contained remains of passages written in three different scripts, Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphics and

As the years have gone by there have been some successes in finding articles in the pits, including a small piece of parchment that said vi

Discovery of clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform proved that the Mesopotamian civilization were able to communicate through written pictures and stylized signs, this was used for purpose of record keeping and schools to teach cuneiform.