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Antiquity & Archaeology

La Antikuedad i la Arkeolojiya · 33 articles

Antiquity & Archaeology
  1. The Name of JerusalemŞalom · 31 July 2019According to the Israel Antiquities Authority, a 2,100-year-old inscription is probably the first to contain the word Jerusalem in its full form (as it is pronounced…
  2. The Market of Ashkelon — Buy Cheap, Sell DearŞalom · 28 August 2019The name Ashkelon comes from shekel. Shekel is the name of Israel's currency. The word shekel has the same root as lishkol, which means to weigh.
  3. The Flood of BabylonŞalom · 30 October 2019The stories of the Flood (tufan) that were written in Babylon closely resemble the one written in 'Bereshit' (Genesis), though with many differences. There are some…
  4. The Education of Children in Antiquity (1)Şalom · 6 November 2019It seems to us that in antiquity only the scribes (soferim) knew how to read and write. Educating children in schools and preparing them for life…
  5. The Education of Children in Antiquity (2)Şalom · 13 November 2019The teaching staff fell into three categories: (1) the 'grammatistai', who taught how to speak correctly in words and grammar; (2) the 'kitharistai', who taught music;…
  6. Important Products of Antiquity (1)Şalom · 20 November 2019To manufacture something, to offer a product to the world, is the very subject of economics. Economics was always one of the reasons for invasions, wars,…
  7. Important Products of Antiquity (2)Şalom · 27 November 2019A third product of the economy was silk. History tells us that silk began to exist in China more than 4,000 years ago, and the Chinese…
  8. Important Products of Antiquity (3)Şalom · 18 December 2019Another important product of the economy was the cedar tree (sedir ağacı), found in abundance in Phoenicia (Lebanon), a tree already known more than 5,000 years…
  10. The New Year in AntiquityŞalom · 22 January 2020When the Jews were exiled to Babylon, they found there a festival called Akitu. It was celebrated at the New Year. The festival began on the…
  11. What Our Fathers AteŞalom · 12 February 2020Food, more than a means of survival, brings peoples together in community, creating a sense of family and brotherhood with its wealth of colour, flavour and…
  12. Immigrants with Blue EyesŞalom · 28 April 2020Thousands of years ago, immigrants from today's Turkey and today's Iran came to the north of Israel, to the Galilee, and the arrival of these immigrants…
  13. On the Archaeological Ruins of SynagoguesEl Amaneser · no. 184 · 3 June 2020I think it must be interesting to know how the synagogues we had nearly 2,000 years ago were built. Archaeology gives us signs of the existence…
  14. The Beer of the JewsŞalom · 24 June 2020Brewing beer has been known for more than 3,000 years. In the pyramids of Egypt we see figures showing how beer was made. The code of…
  15. The 'Cupping Glass' of MasadaŞalom · 28 July 2020At the Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, spectators noticed that the famous swimmer Michael Phelps, who won the gold medal, had round marks…
  16. The Name of Israel in HistoryŞalom · 19 August 2020We read the name Israel in the Torah, but we should also look for whether other peoples, other writers, mentioned this name in their writings. The…
  17. The Library of AlexandriaEl Amaneser · no. 188 · 14 October 2020When Alexander the Great died in the year 323 before our era, the dynasty of the Ptolemies began to control Egypt. King Ptolemy I established the…
  19. The Tree of LifeŞalom · 4 November 2020In the mythologies, many things were considered sacred. For many peoples the tree symbolizes 'life', with roots that go down to our ancestors and branches that…
  20. The Figures on the Rocks of the NegevŞalom · 1 December 2021The civilizations of Sumer and Egypt fed on observations of the sky. They relied on the events of the sky to know the future of those…
  21. Roots of the New YearŞalom · 19 January 2022In antiquity the new year was celebrated according to geography and astronomy. In Egypt the new year was the day the river Nile overflowed. In the…
  22. HammurabiŞalom · 9 February 2022On 5 December we commemorated the day when the right of women to vote and be elected was accepted in Turkey — a right that women…
  23. Clothing in AntiquityŞalom · 19 October 2022When we speak of antiquity, each of the peoples — the Egyptians, the Sumerians, the Assyrians, the Romans or the Chinese — had different customs for…
  24. Eating in AntiquityEl Amaneser · no. 213 · 9 November 2022Man always needed to eat in order to live. It is known that every civilization had its own customs and traditions in the way of eating,…
  25. Rubbish in AntiquityŞalom · 7 December 2022In antiquity man left very little rubbish. Today what we leave is mostly packaging, things that can be used only once, and what we peel from…
  26. Beauty in AntiquityŞalom · 28 December 2022It is said that in life everything changes. The thing that does not change is change. The same goes for beauty. It changes in every age,…
  27. Some Curiosities of YesterdayEl Amaneser · no. 224 · 11 October 2023The woman of today is lucky because she can know at once whether she is pregnant or not. But before? What did they do to be…
  29. The Library of AlexandriaŞalom · 23 November 2023Among so much lost knowledge, the destruction of the Library of Alexandria, which was a gradual event lasting several successive centuries, was not as disastrous as…
  30. A Woman Doctor in AntiquityEl Amaneser · no. 228 · 14 February 2024One day in the 4th century BCE, a woman of Athens named Agnodice was brought before the Areopagus, made up of men full of anger, and…
  31. On QumranŞalom · 28 June 2024Khirbet Qumran (in Hebrew just Qumran; khirbet in Arabic means ruins — in Turkish we have the word 'harabe', from the same root) is surely one…
  32. Health in AntiquityŞalom · 10 July 2024'Baths, wine and sex can harm the body; but it is these things that make life worth living.' A tomb inscription found in a tomb of…
  33. On JerusalemEl Amaneser · no. 233 · 10 July 2024The investigations carried out in Jerusalem have shown us that this city was at first very small; it is believed that perhaps some 500 or 700…
  34. Abdiel and Joseph the RighteousŞalom · 23 October 2024In 1980 Alain Zivie, an Egyptologist (an expert in the science of Egypt), began to excavate a rock-cut tomb at Saqqara, a place very near Cairo…
  35. The Olympic GamesEl Amaneser · no. 239 · 8 January 2025It is said that the Olympic Games began in the year 776 BCE. Although in the epics of Homer, who we believe lived before that date,…
  36. RubbishŞalom · 19 November 2025Elusa is an ancient city in the Negev, 20 km from Beersheba. Elusa was the departure point of the caravans for Egypt or for Sinai. In…