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Ghostwriting the Torah?

  • the Torah and the Bible
  • October 11, 2011
Researchers have developed an algorithm that could help to unravel the different sources that contributed to individual books of the Bible. The...
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Was the Sphinx once a lion?

The consensus among Egyptologists is that the pharaoh Khephren had the famous Sphinx built during the days of the Old Kingdom, and it always had...
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Finds in the Valley of the Kings

On a recent archeology blog (Archaeorama), Dr. Zahi Hawass, Egypt’s premier archeologist discusses a few finds in the Valley of the Kings....
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The origin of Halloween

In archaic English, the name for the Christian holiday of November 1st was All Hallows Day or All Hallow Mass. It meant the same thing as the...
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Was Biblical Joseph bought with coins?

According to an article in the Middle East Media Research Institute, following a report in the Egyptian daily, Al-Ahram, some Egyptian...
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What is a Goth?

Gothenburg is a city in Sweden and an internet service provider in that city has decided to call itself GothNet. This choice of a name has caused a...
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September and the fall of apples

Autumn is coming and with it, a new crop of apples. Readers who are interested in learning about the differences among types of apples can read...
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A mysterious, old inscription

This particularmystery comes from an old graveyard (and notice that, in the latest writing style, this paragraph has only one sentence, formerly a...
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Peace on earth, good will to...Punch?

In an old volume of bound magazines from 1864, there is an odd poem, entitled “Not a Bad Idea of King William.” The magazine is Punch,...
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The origin of language

Most proud parents notice when their babies say their first word. A certain little girl, of whom the Word Geek is very fond, said her first word at...
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