User talk:The Great Beyonder
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I am a British Druze and independent researcher in fields of archaeology and sumerology, specialising in the coverage of European and Ancient Near Eastern archaeology, particularly the Archaeology of Lebanon. In 2009 I visited an untested archaeological site north of Mount Hermon in the Aaiha plain, Lebanon. The inter-montane basin is suggested to be the capital site of the agricultural or Neolithic Revolution and possible location of the emmer wheat domestication event. I suggest a connection of the site with the nearby aceramic Heavy Neolithic Qaraoun culture of Lebanon and have made coverage of this archaeology a primary focus of my work. This culture is suggested to have deforested Lebanon with Heavy Neolithic axes and tools, making way for cultivation of the Neolithic founder crops evidenced with orange slice sickle blades and White Ware proto-pottery silos, paleo-climate information, and the best guesses of archaeologists who have been unable to conduct satisfactory surveys of the north Hermon basins, Temples of Mount Hermon, Temples of the Beqaa Valley and Tells of the Beqaa Valley for various reasons. Evidence was found on site of a reservoir and irrigation channels suggested to have been used in advanced prehistoric, stormwater control and irrigation from the source of the Jordan river, cut through solid limestone bedrock like the trench at Jericho.
The location was first suggested by British scholar Christian O'Brien CBE (former chariman of Anglo-Iranian Oil) to have been described in stories of the Garden of the gods (Sumerian paradise) in Sumerian literature and the Garden of Eden in Hebraic literature.
The Aaiha hypothesis in my sandbox has put together details of core areas of research into the Aaiha plain and Qaraoun culture. A presentation about the 2009 survey of the site was prepared for Assaad Seif at the Directorate General of Antiquities and Gaby Layoun, the Lebanese Minister of Culture is available for download in Microsoft PowerPoint format here [1]. A French translation has also been sent to Maya Haidar-Boustani and Leila Badre suggesting an academic or UNESCO archaeological survey and government protection of the Aaiha plain.[2] Copies have also been sent to Danielle Stordeur, Frederic Abbes Avi Gopher, Ofer Bar-Yosef, Nigel Goring-Morris and Graeme Barker. UNESCO, National Geographic, Royal Geographical Society, the Council for British Research in the Levant and the Palestine Exploration Fund have all been informed. I have recently formed a facebook group called Save Beqaa Heritage! in order to lobby for increased research and conservation in this woefully understudied area. You are most welcome to follow me there. Save Beqaa Heritage! Facebook Group Also now trying to fund excavation of the remains of the watercourse or River of Eden here. [3]
Details are available in Arabic here [4].
Articles created
[edit ]Places
[edit ]- Ekur Ekur Ekur
- Edin (Sumerian term)
- Enamtila
- Ehursag
- Hursag
- Hubur Hubur
- Garden of the gods (Sumerian paradise) Garden of the gods (Sumerian paradise) Garden of the gods (Sumerian paradise)
- Garden of Eden (Ezekiel 31:16)
- Dilmun (link to Mount Mashu)
- Rashaya (5x expanded) Rashaya
- Dahr El Ahmar
- Majdel Balhis
- Jdeidet el Khass
- Ras Baalbek
- Portingbury Hills
- Lake Lisan †
- Lake Beisan †
- Bouqaia
- Dail Mòr
- Beit Lahia (Lebanon)
- Wadi Khureitun
- Zouk Mosbeh
- Bcheale
- Khalwet el Biyad
- Wadi al-Taym
- Kiboreia
- Arsal
- Canalizations of Zenobia
- Cuban underwater city
- Karak Nuh (5x expanded)
- Deir Mar Maroun
- Abred
- Gwynfyd
- Ceugant
Temples of the Beqaa Valley
[edit ]- Temples of the Beqaa Valley
- Nahle, Lebanon
- Yammoune
- Qasr el Banat, Lebanon
- Temnin el-Foka
- Afka
- Shheem
- Kafr Zabad
Temples of Mount Hermon
[edit ]- Temples of Mount Hermon Temples of Mount Hermon Temples of Mount Hermon
- Aaiha Aaiha
- Kfar Qouq
- Deir El Aachayer
- Ain Harcha
- Yanta (village)
- Hebbariye
- Libbaya (Roman temple)
- Nebi Safa
- Aaqbe
- Khirbet El-Knese
- Bakka, Lebanon
- Rakleh
- Burqush
- Jdeidet Yabous
- Kafr Hawar
- Qal'at Bustra
- Har Senaim
- Ain Aata
- Qasr Chbib
- Mdoukha
Archaeologists, Archaeoastronomers and Archdruids
[edit ]- Christian O'Brien †
- George Aaron Barton †
- Richard Williams Morgan † (inspired)
- Alexander Thom † (significantly expanded)
- Anne Macaulay †
- Euan MacKie
- Robin Heath
- Jay Kappraff
- John Anthony West
- Tom Brooks (writer)
- Charles William Meredith van de Velde
- Manuel Iturralde-Vinent
- Aplahanda
- Yatar-Ami
- Yahdul-Lim
- Christine James
- Taliesin Williams
- Thomas Simpson (engineer)
- Hugh Montgomery (historian)
- Charles Isaac Stevens
- Leon Chechemian
- Günther Thomann
- Bo Gabriel Montgomery
- Beauregard Houston-Montgomery
Bibliogaphies
[edit ]Religious figures
[edit ]- Saint Cyllin
- Saint Eigen
- Al-Muqtana Baha'uddin Al-Muqtana Baha'uddin
- Theandrios
- Atomus
- Baal-Hermon
- King Puru
- Patriarch Elias of Antioch
- Siculus
- Chuldu
- Hermuthruda
- Thane of Calder
- Thane of Fife
- Eleazar (High Priest)
- Manasseh (High Priest)
- Jesus, son of Fabus
- Simon son of Boethus
Events
[edit ]Concepts
[edit ]- Astronomical Complex
- Wandlebury Enigma
- Decad (Sumerian texts) Decad
- Divine call Divine call
- Divine council (5x Expanded)
- Ukkin
- History of sport (Expanded)
- Neo-Celtic Christianity
Organisations
[edit ]- inSpiral Lounge inSpiral Lounge
- Whirl-Y-Gig
- Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée
- Museum of Lebanese Prehistory Museum of Lebanese Prehistory
- Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut
- Ministry of Culture (Lebanon)
- Directorate General of Antiquities
- International Institute for Prehistoric Research Cantabria
- Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
- Lebanese ISBN Agency
- Association for the Protection of the Lebanese Heritage
- Save Beirut Heritage
- World Heritage Centre
- Syrian archaeological heritage under threat
- Lebanese British Friends of the National Museum
- Lebanese Civil Defense
- Traveler's Library
- Raglan Library
- Welsh Manuscripts Society
- Ancient British Church
- Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities (5 x Expanded)
Qualifications
[edit ]Categories Created
[edit ]- Category:Heavy Neolithic sites
- Category:Trihedral Neolithic sites
- Category:Shepherd Neolithic sites
- Category:Mayroubian sites
- Category:Khiamian sites
- Category:Lebanese pottery
- Category:Syrian pottery
- Category:Lebanese archaeologists
- Category:Syrian archaeologists
- Category:Populated places in the Rashaya District
- Category:Cuban geologists
- Category:Cuban paleontologists
- Category:Megalithic monuments in the Middle East
Templates Created
[edit ]- Template:Archaeological sites in Lebanon
- Template:Heavy Neolithic sites
- Template:Middle Eastern megaliths
- Template:Pseudo-Gnostic apocrypha
- Assaad Seif
- Maya Haïdar Boustani
- Leila Badre
- Bassam Jamous
- Frédéric Abbès
- Danielle Stordeur
- Henri de Contenson
- Nigel Goring-Morris
- Avi Gopher
- Willem van Zeist Willem Van Zeist
- Jean Perrot
- Diana Kirkbride †
- Jacques Cauvin † Jacques Cauvin
- Jean Pouilloux †
- Henri Fleisch †
- Francis Hours †
- Auguste Bergy †
- Godefroy Zumoffen †
- Paul Bovier-Lapierre †
- Raoul Desribes †
- Maurice Tallon
- Jacques Tixier
- Alfred Rust †
- Denis Buzy †
- Oliver Aurenche †
- Moshe Stekelis †
- Louis Burkhalter †
- Peter Akkermans
- George F. Taylor
- Miscellaneous Babylonian Inscriptions
- Barton Cylinder (inspired and expanded)
- Debate between sheep and grain Debate between sheep and grain
- Debate between Winter and Summer Debate between Winter and Summer
- Enlil and Ninlil Enlil and Ninlil
- Old Babylonian oracle
- Self-praise of Shulgi (Shulgi D)
- Kesh temple hymn Kesh temple hymn Kesh temple hymn
- Hymn to Enlil Hymn to Enlil
- Lament for Ur Lament for Ur
- Song of the hoe Song of the hoe
- Gudea cylinders Gudea cylinders Gudea cylinders
- Atrahasis* (Lambert and Millard part 1, Watercourse rebellion section)
- Book of Enoch* (Journey from Hermon to Eden section)
- Torah*
- Quran* (Jannah)
- Bible* (Genesis, Ezekiel, Revelation)
- British Edda
Sumerian people
[edit ]Ancient pottery
[edit ]- Gigantolith
- Orange slice
- Emireh point
- Ksar Akil flake
- Grattoir de côté
- Canaanean blade
- Minet ed Dhalia point
Ancient writing
[edit ]- Epistles of Wisdom Epistles of Wisdom
- McClelland Sherd
- Tablet of Shamash Tablet of Shamash
- Acts of Peter (Simon Magus death section)
- Book of Noah (Royal Messiah description section)
- The British Edda
- Coelbren Rhodd
- Chichester inscription
- Barddas
- Iolo Manuscripts
- Coelbren y Beirdd
- Saint Paul in Britain
- The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
- The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth
- Pseudo-John
- Pseudo-Dorotheus
- Pseudo-Simon
- Pseudo-Mark
- Pseudo-Matthew
- Pseudo-Luke
- Pseudo-Crato
- Pseudo-Abdias
- Pseudo-Linus
- Pseudo-Melitus
- Pseudo-Marcellus
- Pseudo-Ephraem
- Pseudo-Ambrose
- Pseudo-Jerome
- Pseudo-Augustine
- Pseudo-Gregory
- Pseudo-Sophronius
- Pseudo-Epiphanios
- Koinonos
- Ho Tektōn
- Legend of Mary Magdalene
- Genealogy of the Kings of Mercia
- Manuscripts of the Prose Edda
Ancient measuring
[edit ]- Measuring rod Measuring rod
- Megalithic Yard
- Dalgety bone bead
- Patrickholme bone bead
- Metrological Relief
Ancient chronology
[edit ]Ancient buildings
[edit ]Ancient events
[edit ]- Aonach (event)
- Tailteann games (expanded)
Ancient genealogies
[edit ]Ancient monuments
[edit ]Ancient peoples
[edit ]- Craddock Moor stone circle
- Stannon stone circle
- Goodaver stone circle
- Fernacre
- The Pipers
- Trippet stones
- Stripple stones
- Nine stones
- Leaze stone circle
- Brown Willy Cairns Brown Willy Cairns
- Brown Gelly
- Showery Tor
Other Megaliths
[edit ]- Tower of Jericho Tower of Jericho
- Scorhill Scorhill
- Balquhain Balquhain
- Duloe stone circle
- Leper Stone
Sites damaged during the Syrian civil war
[edit ]Lebanese fish
[edit ]- Archaeology of Lebanon updated
Heavy Neolithic sites of the Qaraoun culture in Lebanon
- Qaraoun I
- Qaraoun II
- Aadloun II (Bezez Cave)
- Sidon III
- Mtaileb I
- Akbiyeh
- Beit Mery II
- Jbaa (Archaeology section)
- Jebel Aabeby
- Joub Jannine III
- Dekwaneh
- Ourrouar
- Hadeth south
- Tell Mureibit
- Kefraya
- Tell Khardane
- Dakoue
- Tell Zenoub
- Nabi Zair
- Majdel Anjar
- Bustan Birke
- Douris (Baalbek)
- Amlaq Qatih
- Kfar Tebnit
- Tayibe (Lebanon)
- Taire II
- Khallet Michte
- Ard Saouda
- Plain of Zghorta
- Sarepta
- Kfar Abida (Fadous Sud)
- Baidar ech Chamout
- Wadi Koura
- Wadi Yaroun
- Flaoui
- Akkar plain foothills
- Khallet el Hamra
- Douwara
- Al-Bireh, Lebanon
- Tell Ain el Meten
Heavy Neolithic sites of the Qaraoun culture in Palestine
Tahunian culture sites in Palestine
Trihedral Neolithic sites
- Joub Jannine II
- Sin el Fil (archaeology section)
- Kfar Tebnit
Shepherd Neolithic sites
- Maqne I
- Qaa (archaeology & Syrian invasion sections)
- Hermel I
- Hermel II
- Douris (Baalbek)
- Wadi Boura
- Kamouh el Hermel
- Qalaat Tannour
- Rayak North
- Riha Station
- Saraain El Faouqa
Archaeological sites in Lebanon
- Jeita Grotto (archaeology section, Jeita I to IV)
- Ksar Akil (expanded)
- Antelias cave †
- Beirut (archaeology section, Beirut I to VII)
- Ras Beirut (archaeology section, Ras Beirut I to XIV)
- Mayrouba
- Tell Baalbek
- Neba'a Faour Neba'a Faour
- Nachcharini
- Labweh Labweh
- Jabal es Saaïdé
- Kaukaba Station
- Moukhtara
- Ras El Kelb
- Hashbai
- Ard Tlaili
- Ras Baalbek I
- Tell Neba'a Litani
- Tell Ain Nfaikh
- Tell Ain Saouda
- Tell Jisr
- Aammiq
- Tell Zeitoun
- Sands of Beirut Sands of Beirut
- Tahun ben Aissa
- Tell Deir
- Ain Jaouze
- Kamid al lawz (expanded)
- Byblos (archaeology section)
- Haret ech Cheikh
- Bechamoun (archaeology section)
- Qaraoun III
- Phoenician port of Beirut
Archaeological sites in Syria
- Tell Aswad
- Tell Ghoraifé Tell Ghoraife
- Tell Ramad Tell Ramad
- El Kowm el Kowm
- Bouqras
- Qdeir
- Tell Khazzami
- Tell Marj
- Tell Ezou Tell Ezou
- Tell Halula Tell Halula
- Tell Kazel
- Phoenician stadium and Necropolis of Amrit
- Tell Sakka
- Tell Sabi Abyad (Collaboration with Yazan (talk) Tell Sabi Abyad
- Sarmada (archaeology sections)
- Bab al-Hawa Border Crossing (archaeology section)
- Qasr al-Banat
Archaeological sites in Israel and Palestine
- Munhata
- Gilgal I
- El Khiam
- Horvet Galil
- Mujahia
- Hatula Hatula
- Kfar Giladi (expanded)
- Nahal Besor (expanded)
- Hamadia (expanded)
- Dan (ancient city) (Megalith)
Archaeological sites in Jordan
Archaeological sites in Egypt
Archaeological sites in Iran
- Huto and Kamarband Caves
- Kharg island (Archaeology section)
Archaeological sites in Iraq
Archaeological sites in Turkey
Archaeological sites in Yemen
- Tihamah (Archaeology section)
Archaeological sites in Iran
- Tihamah (Archaeology section)
Archaeological sites in Russia
Archaeological sites in Libya
Lebanese politicians
[edit ]Tibetan politicians
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Asian 10,000 Challenge invite
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