#ancient arabia

[memories-of-ancients]

Bronze incense burner, southwestern Arabia, 1st millennium BC

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[vulturesouls]

Cube-shaped incense burner carved of pink limestone. Sabaean, 2ndC BC-1stC BC, made in Yemen.

There is an ancient South Arabian inscription carved on all four sides listing four types of incense: a golden coloured gum, rud, (artemesia abyssinica) (Rhodokamakis), a benevolent gum (ncm, a sweet mild aroma (rhod), costus (qst) and an oderiferous root, dhb (a dark-hearted (as opposed to srf 'silver' > light hearted) plant (rhod).

British Museum

[ochipi]

Archaeological things that made me happy 2

The Wijnaldum Fibula, a bow brooch from Great Frisia, was found plowed to bits. Metal detectorists and archaeologists spend years searching the fields of Wijnaldum trying to complete the brooch and to the world’s (and my) joy, the brooch was reassembled to its most complete form in 1500 years.

The garnet inlay originates from India, and two Dirham coins were found, signifying long distance trade with the East.

Just for the fun of it, can you spot Wotan’s face in the garnet inlay?

[the-narnian-sea]

Hafsah might have hinted the Altair spin-off book on her livestream with HUGENDUBEL last night! She could not say much but said that fans "who know will know", hinting about the plenty of fans who have been asking for an Altair Al-Badawi book for months.

A few days ago she has posted about her writing a book about a blonde character. The only blonde character written by her is our man Altair 🥰

[ancientstuff]

Are those bones suggestive of ritual behaviour? Maybe.

[riyadhalfareh]

[eli-artsblog]

20th century crusader

[historysideblog]

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[kemetic-dreams]

What is the DNA haplogroup of modern Egyptians?

Haplogroup E1b1b1

Wikipedia (E1b1b): E-M215, also known as E1b1b and formerly E3b, is a major human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. It is a division of the macro-haplogroup E-M96, which is defined by the single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) mutation M215. In other words, it is one of the major patrilineages of humanity, linking from father-to-son back to a common male-line ancestor ("Y-chromosomal Adam"). It is a subject of discussion and study in genetics as well as genetic genealogy, archaeology, and historical linguistics.

The E-M215 haplogroup has two ancient branches that contain all the known modern E-M215, E-M35 and E-M281 subclades. Of the latter two, the only branch that has been confirmed in a native population outside of Ethiopia is E-M35. E-M35 in turn has two known branches, haplogroup E-V68 and haplogroup E-Z827, which contain by far the majority of all modern E-M215 carrying men. E-V68 and E-V257 have been found in highest numbers in North Africa and the Horn of Africa, but also in lower numbers in parts of the Middle East and Europe, and in isolated populations of Southern Africa.

The Study authors consider Mtdna L0 thru L4 exclusively African.

Wikipedia quote: Haplogroup L3 descendants notwithstanding, the designation "haplogroup L" is typically used to designate the family of mtDNA clades that are most frequently found in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, all non-African haplogroups coalesce onto either haplogroup M or haplogroup N, and both these macrohaplogroups are simply sub-branches of haplogroup L3. Consequently, L in its broadest definition is really a paragroup containing all of modern humanity, and all human mitochondrial DNA from around the world are subclades of haplogroup L.

repeat - and all human mitochondrial DNA from around the world are subclades of haplogroup L.

Basal J*(xJ1,J2) is found at its highest frequencies among the Soqotri/Socotra (71.4%).

The people of the Island of Soqotri/Socotra are the genetically PUREST of ALL ARABS.

This is what they look like!

[memories-of-ancients]

Bronze bull, Arabia, 1st millennium BC

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[jeannereames]

Obviously we will never know, but do you think/imagine Alexander would've returned to India to try again? Also if Alexander really was looking towards Carthage, what do you think made him decide to head West instead of Arabia?

First, just to clarify, I think he intended both to attack Carthage and circumnavigate/subdue Arabia. Both would have served distinct purposes for securing his new Asian empire and trade, as well as provided a campaign in the West.

As for India … no, I don’t think he’d have gone back. In part because I think he was looking for a way to get out of there even when he was there. In a recent post, I pointed to an article by my colleagues Tim Howe and Sabine Müller, “Mission Accomplished: Alexander at the Hyphasis.” Their argument (simplified) is that the famed “mutiny” wasn’t, and served as an excuse to turn back from what he knew an impossible campaign without losing face (timē). If you look at what he did, it was to re-establish Persian influence/sovereignty in the Punjab. He didn’t push past where the Persians had already been. I used to think he might have liked to push on, but I’ve come to doubt that.

I believe his chief interest in India was trade, and that the West was calling too loudly.

[worldhistoryfacts]

Head of a man, found in Yemen around the year 0. Yemen at the time was ruled by the Sabaeans (likely the kingdom of Sheba in the Bible), who operated a trading kingdom there. The Romans called this part of the world Arabia Felix -- Happy Arabia.

{WHF} {Ko-Fi} {Medium}

[the-narnian-sea]

Zafira bint Iskandar

Some part of her wanted to reach for him, to smooth away the unhappiness creasing his face, to touch the scars that made him him.

'Monsters cannot become men,' she whispered instead, and the darkness hummed its agreement.

We Hunt The Flame by Hafsah Faizal {@hafsahfaizal}

[ancientstuff]

Sounds like a fascinating and potentially quite an important site, with regard to urbanisation.

[seasealwaters]

Probably a myth, I can't recall any mass graves of infant girls ever being found in any part of Arabia, nor of any written source claiming that the practice was present, let alone common (except for Islamic ones ofc). Moreover, even if Ancient Arabia was as much of a hellscape as people say, it still wouldn't make sense for female infanticide to be so widespread. Even the most sexist, women-hating society actually needs women, if only as incubators and breeding cattle. Pre-Islamic Arabs wouldn't have survived until the birth of Islam if their first reaction to any baby girl ever was "HEY, LET'S KILL HER, WE AIN'T GOT NOTHING BETTER TO DO".

Plus, are we ever going to discuss how on Earth was Khadija (the first wife of the Prophet, who he married long before actually becoming a Prophet, and who was much older than he was), such a powerful, wealthy, and respected business women in Ancient Arabia? The land where supposedly women weren't allowed to do anything else besides give birth and die?

i'm tempted to make a list of all the dumbest things i've heard both muslim scholars and non-muslim historians say about pre-islamic arabia. like they fr are convinced arabs were amoral neanderthals with no capability of reason, love, morality, or humanity before islam came around.