Word: babylonia
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...sacrificing dogs with red fur. Seneca the Younger wrote that "the redness of the dog star is deeper, that of Mars milder." Ptolemy called it "reddish," a description also used by Cicero, Horace and other classical authors. The same hue was attributed to the star in cuneiform texts of Babylonia dating as far back...
...treatise on magical practices in Talmudic Babylonia focusing on the Late Antiquity period, Tusk’s thesis strives toward a more theological understanding of the way religion works among actual people-—in this case, Talmudic Babylonians, he says. In the grander sense, Tusk is trying to set an academic precedent. Rather than begin with doubt, all scientific inquiry should accept the existence of God as a basic premise of its research. For instance, particle physicists should use what they discover about the universe to help them better understand...
...that was bad enough. Iraq's cultural history stretches back an astonishing 10,000 years, to the very dawn of civilization. The first cities, the earliest known legal system and the first written language all arose there--in the ancient Mesopotamian kingdoms of Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia. And artifacts from that entire, mind-boggling sweep of time--hundreds of thousands of objects that had survived wars and successive invasions by Cyrus of Persia, Alexander the Great, the Mongols and other marauders long forgotten--might now be missing or destroyed...
...city was in a renaissance. Its initial splendor had been snuffed out by Babylonia in 586 B.C. (see box page 52). Within 50 years, Jews had begun rebuilding, but full glory awaited the rule, from 37 B.C. to 4 B.C., of Herod the Great. Herod is one of ancient history's extraordinary figures. Ten times married, a serious drinker and a half-Jew who was half-trusted by his subjects, he played the superpower politics of his day consummately. In 63 B.C., Rome became Judea's ruler, succeeding Babylonia, Persia, Greece and the Jews themselves. Herod, who hailed from...
Everyone remembers the classic Olympic moments--Nadia Comaneci's perfect 10, the U.S. ice hockey team's victory at Lake Placid, tai Babylonia and Randy Gardiner unable to skate. The Olympics represent the pinnacle of human athletic endeavor: Great talent, hard work, good sportspersonship...