Tag: ancient
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The Dakhamunzu Affair
from Echoes from the Gnosis: During the decline of the Amarna period an extraordinary series of events was to take place; one of the most enigmatic of these has become known to Egyptologists as the “Dakhamunzu Affair”, or the “Zannanza Affair”. During the second half of the fourteenth century BC, relations between Egypt and the other kingdoms in…
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Empire by Sargon the Great
from fsmitha.com: “The Sumerians had a salinization problem. Evaporating water left behind layers of salt, and rising water tables brought more salt to the surface. Sumerians wrote of the earth turning white. A solution to the problem was to leave lands not watered for many seasons, to let the water table fall and let rain…