Tag: bible
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Finding the true identity of the Amazons (part two)
European nations depicted as women for ignoring the threat from the east 1895 The true identity of the Amazons © Nicholas Costa 2024 PART TWO Here follows a brief tour of the prevailing ethos in the Middle East in antiquity. Sumer (Sumer is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia,…
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Atlantis in the Sibylline Oracles (part one)
Atlantis in the Sibylline Oracles © Nicholas Costa 2024 In AD 17 the region of Lydia in western Asia Minor was subjected to a huge earthquake. Pliny called it “the greatest earthquake in human memory” (Nat. Hist. 2:86 §200). Twelve cities in the region were devastated. They were Sardis, Magnesia, Temnos, Philadelphia, Aegae, Apollonis, Mostene,…