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More Details about Ancient Metal Plates from the BBC

March 29, 2011 – 7:34 am

UPDATE: See the latest updates about this discovery at Jordanian Lead Plates: Authentic or Forgery? – A few days ago we wrote about an interesting discovery of ancient sealed metal plates that were found within the last few years in Jordan, and are starting to create a stir among archeologists. The BBC News religious affairs [...]

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Temple the Source of All Civilization

March 20, 2008 – 6:08 am

Professor Hugh Nibley often taught that the temple was the source of many of the institutions, forms, and trappings of our modern-day society. He once remarked: There is no part of our civilization which doesn’t have its rise in the temple. Nibley also made the comments: So poetry, music, and dance go out to the [...]

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The Origin of the Letter “E”

February 17, 2008 – 9:27 am

The Encyclopedia Britannica reports what is speculated to be the origin of the letter “E” in our modern alphabet: The letter E may have started as a picture sign of a man with arms upraised, as in Egyptian hieroglyphic writing (1) and in a very early Semitic writing used in about 1500 BC on the [...]

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