Category: Toponyms

Hadhramaut is derived from a Semitic root meaning “south,”, a direct cognate of Phoenician Hadrumetum and Hebrew הדרום (ha-darom, “the south”)

Judas Cave is one of many karst passages and voids, inside Qarah Mountain, near Al-Hasa in Saudi Arabia. The legend has it that this cave is where biblical Judas Iscariot hid and died after his betrayal to Jesus Chris. This is not a new claim, local people in 1920s, linked this cave with biblical Abraham!…

According to the Jewish encyclopedia: “The Chaldeans were a Semitic people and apparently of very pure blood. Their original seat may have been Arabia, whence they migrated at an unknown period into the country of the sea-lands about the head of the Persian gulf.”. [01] Chaldea, their country. “In the early period, between the early…

abraham burial site: The identification of biblical “Hebron” with “Hebron” of the West Bank, should not be taken for granted.

After 129 B.C., with the decay of the Seleucid empire, a predominantly ethnically Arab kingdom arose in Lower Iraq,

Etymology of Iraq: “Iraq” is originally a colouronym, (a word that specifically identifies a particular color or hue). Iraq denotes a shade of color that is rather dark: grayish-black, dark-green or brownish-yellow.

Fossil coral records provide new evidence that frequent winter shamals, or dust storms, and a prolonged cold winter season contributed to the collapse of the ancient Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia.

The meaning of Egypt is: “narrow passage”, in referring to the narrow land bridge, between the Levant and North Africa.

It is generally agreed that (ăpăr), in ancient Hebrew, denotes dust and similar material.

The name “Qatraye” is derived from “ܩܵܛܹܪ/qāṭīr” which means: “Line”.