At the impressive citadel of Perperikon in the mineral-rich Rhodopi mountains of southern Bulgaria are the ruins of a temple for the Thracian god Sabazios, whose name means god (zios or dios/day) of the sap, […]
Hesiod circa 700 b. c. provided the first record of the Oceanids such as Plouto, a goddess of rainfall and good crops whose etymology is that of pluvial and flow, so Plouto the mother of […]
When the Ice Age was ending, the Pelasgian king Lydus of the mineral rich Mount Tmolus region of far western Anatolia (where Sardis was established) became the progenitor of the Lydians, not named for Lud […]
Ilus was a grandson of Dardanus (namesake of the Dardanelles strait), for whom was named Ilion (latin Ilium), the ancient pronunciation spelled Wilion which appears in Hittite hieroglyphs as the kingdom of Wilusa. The other […]
By the Greek Solon’s day circa 600 b. c., the Egyptian priests at Sais who informed him about Atlantis (later told to Plato) said that the sinking of Atlantis had caused the Strait of Gibraltar […]
Teucer of Crete in the days of king Minos experienced the homeland become unsuitable because of drought (when the Ice Age had recently ended), so Teucer sailed northeast across the Aegean sea to western Anatolia […]
The river names Danube, Dniester, and Dnieper were named for the Israelite tribe of Dan, noteworthy mariners who apparently were among the first to have sailed into what had recently become the Black Sea (a […]
The Aramaeans of the upper Euphrates adapted the Phoenician (phonetic) alphabet for their own use around 1000 b. c., which became the alphabet of the Sogdians in the land of Uz (a son of Aram), […]
Job was a wealthy man during the Ice Age in the Land of Uz, Uzbekistan, named for Uz who was a son of Aram (a son of Shem) who ventured the nearly two thousand miles […]
The Assyrian sun god Shamash was named for Asshur’s father Shem, the worship of whom extended east of Iran into the Amu Darya (Oxus) river valley between the Pamir and Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan […]
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