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Bookmark or Share- The Mystery of Alexander the Great and the Dried Up Aral SeaHistorians are still in debate over whether Alexander the Great ever knew about the Aral Sea, located between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Credit: by Gary Lee Todd, Ph.D. CC BY 1.0/flickr Alexander the Great’s empire spanned an enormous land mass, encompassing much of the Mediterranean and parts of the subcontinent, but there still exists a mystery around the Aral Sea, a now-dried up inland ...
- Mediterranean Sea | Facts, History, Islands, & Countries | BritannicaMediterranean Sea, an intercontinental sea that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean on the west to Asia on the east and separates Europe from Africa. It has often been called the incubator of Western civilization.
- The Great Sea - Encyclopedia of The Bible - Bible GatewaySEA, THE GREAT (הַיָּ֥ם הַגָּדֹ֖ול). The Mediterranean Sea is so designated throughout much of the OT, beginning in Numbers 34:6, 7. Clearly, the modern name of Mediterranean, suggesting the sea’s central position in the known world, would have been completely unsuitable to the Israelites; for them, the sea was the western ...
- Bible Map: Great Sea (Mediterranean) - Bible Atlas.orgThe boy Jesus, from the heights above Nazareth, must often have looked on the waters of the great sea, as they broke in foam on the curving shore, from the roots of Carmel to the point at Acre. Once only in His journeyings, so far as we know, did He approach the sea, namely on His ever-memorable visit to the "borders of Tyre and Sidon ...
- The Great Sea: A Human History of the MediterraneanIn this brilliant and expansive book, David Abulafia offers a fresh perspective by focusing on the sea itself: its practical importance for transport and sustenance; its dynamic role in the rise and fall of empires; and the remarkable cast of characters-sailors, merchants, migrants, pirates, pilgrims-who have crossed and re-crossed it.
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