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John T is an obvious troll. He trolls incessantly, is consistently rude and more than a wee bit psychopathic in his off-topic, Red Herring/Strawman replies. (He should be 'moderated' but isnt. Therein lies the Error.) Why would you feel a need to take him seriously? You've highlighted one childish g...

20% Levantine Ancestry c.1400 16% Levantine Ancestry c.1500 12% Levantine Ancestry c.1600 8% Levantine Ancestry c.1700 4% Levantine Ancestry c.1800 2% Levantine Ancestry c.1900 ~18-25 generations since 1400. The Middle Eastern genetic pattern is Iranic though. These finding are supported by ancient ...

Major Hathor discovery in Spain. From the Babylonian Talmud Tractate ‘Abodah Zarah Folio 43a, we may presume that not all images of Hathor/Isis were prohibited, only 'Eve Giving to Suck' (Anat?), meaning the image of the Older Asherah -- aka Wisdom -- was not considered evil? I think that Paleo-Jude...

Elohim Redux . fwiw, I think the Elohim of the OT is a family of gods syncretized to a synthetic One God Concept imposed c.300 BC upon a wild and wooly Judaism(s) of plurality. In Elephantine Egypt (where Beth-El was a House of God not deity proper) c.400 BC, I see : 1) Yahu (YHWH) 2) Anat (= Astar...

https://www.dailysabah.com/life/history/enchanted-ancient-egyptian-amulet-seal-found-in-turkiyes-amasra Archaeologists excavating a Roman-era ruin in the ancient city of Amastris in Turkey have recently made the curious discovery of a talismanic amulet seal. The pyramid-shaped Egyptian amulet has hi...

The account of Josephus in The Jewish War,[4] refers to the Onias who built the Temple at Leontopolis as "the son of Simon", implying that it was Onias III, and not his son, who fled to Egypt and built the Temple. ... Onias now requested the king and his sister-wife, Cleopatra, to allow h...

I've repeatedly posted my hypothesis that Philo's 'Therapeutae' were actually a heterodox (Sethian) Judaic cult that had assimilated a) Osirian features by proximity of their colony to the Taposiris site, or b) an entire caste or community of Osirian healers, converted at some stage of the Ptolemaic...