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Ganesha Ganesha, also known as Ganapati, Vinayaka, or by numerous other names, is one of the best-known and most worshipped deities in the Hindu pantheon. Though not alluding to the classical form of Ganapati,the earliest mention of Ganapati,is found in the Rigveda. Ganapatya is a denomination of Hinduism that worships Ganesha (also called Ganapati) as […]

Ninḫursaĝ Ninḫursaĝ, also known as Damgalnuna or Ninmah, was the ancient Sumerian mother goddess of the mountains, and one of the seven great deities of Sumer. She is principally a fertility goddess. Temple hymn sources identify her as the “true and great lady of heaven” (possibly in relation to her standing on the mountain) and […]

Until recently, the oldest human fossil remains ever discovered in Poland were three molars found in Cave Stajnia, in the Krakow-Czestochowa Upland. Those molars were estimated to be between 42-52,000 years old. According to Science in Poland, that discovery has recently been blown away. A pair of finger bones belonging to a young Neanderthal child […]

Ashvini Ashvin, Ashwin or Ashwan, also known as Aswayuja, is the seventh month of the lunisolar Hindu calendar, the Vikram Samvat, the solar calendar where it is known as Aipassi and the solar India’s national calender, which is the official solar calendar of modern-day Nepal and India, and the sixth month in the solar Bengali […]

DNA study uncovers ancient ancestor of Europeans

The Assyrian genocide of 1915 in the Ottoman Empire and the Simele massacre of 1933 have been recognized by the State of California recently. The decision was made unanimously, with both Democratic and Republican assembly members behind the resolution. The Assyrian genocide (also known as Sayfo or Seyfo, «Sword») refers to the mass slaughter of […]

May 1909 Grand Sheikh Salim al-Bishri of Egypt issued a Fatwa or religious decree condemning Turkish Muslims for massacring 30,000 Armenians in Adana, a major city in the Ottoman Empire. Sheikh al-Bishri’s 1909 Fatwa was further reinforced by the decree issued in 1917 by Al-Husayn Ibn Ali, the Sharif of Mecca, ordering all Muslims to […]

Abdol Hossein Sardari (1914 in Tehran – 1981 in Nottingham) was an Iranian diplomat. He is credited with saving thousands of Jews in Europe, and given the title “Schindler of Iran”. His first step to help Iranian Jews in France, was to issue them with new passports that did not state their religion. He helped […]

Dilijan (Armenian: Դիլիջան) is a spa town and urban municipal community in the Tavush Province of Armenia. Hiking, mountain biking, and picnicking are popular recreational activities. Usually called Armenian Switzerland or Little Switzerland by the locals, it is one of the most important resorts of Armenia, situated within the Dilijan National Park. Dilijan National Park […]

The Independence Day of Armenia (Armenian: Հայաստանի Անկախության օրը) is the main state holiday in Armenia. This date is celebrated on September 21. This is the second independence of Armenia. The first occurred on May 28, 1918 and led to the formation of the First Republic of Armenia. This republic was then taken over by […]

The Spanish Supreme Court has recently delivered a historic verdict banning all activities relates to bull torture at the “Toro de la Vega” festival, thus saving countless animals from great suffering. Haplogroup J2 is thought to have appeared somewhere in the Middle East towards the end of the last glaciation, between 15,000 and 22,000 years […]

A study published in Nature on August 22 analyzed the piece of bone and discovered that the ancient girl that the fragment belonged to was a never-before-discovered hybrid of two ancient human relatives: a Neanderthal and a Denisovan. Neanderthals and Denisovans inhabited Eurasia for thousands of years until around 40,000 years ago when they were […]

Ayn Rand (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; 1905 – 1982) was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She was born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum to a Russian-Jewish bourgeois family living in Saint Petersburg. Her Objectivism rejects primitivism and tribalism, while arguing that they are symptomatic of an “anti-industrial” mentality. She believed that the indigenous Native Americans, who in […]

Urartu is a geographical region commonly used as the exonym for the Iron Age kingdom also known by the modern rendition of its endonym, the Kingdom of Van, centered around Lake Van in the historic Armenian Highlands (present-day eastern Anatolia). There is linguistic evidence of contact between the proto-Armenian language and the Urartian language at […]

Little Armenia is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California. The name comes from the large number of Armenian-Americans who live in the area and also from the large number of Armenian stores and businesses that had already opened in the neighborhood by the early 1970s. The Los Angeles metropolitan area has the highest concentration […]

Archaeologists have unearthed a Neolithic-era temple with three almost-intact stelae similar in form to the famous and controversial Göbekli Tepe. The ancient temple was unearthed in the Ilısu neighborhood of Dargeçit in southeastern Turkey’s Mardin province and archaeologists estimate that it was built 11,300 years-old. Dr. Ergül Kodaş of Mardin Artuklu University’s Archaeology Department is […]