Category: Toponyms

Biblical Kush/Cush (or Kushan/Cushan) is attested (in some ancient languages) as a name for a black nation in the land of (lower) Nubia, as well as a name for a black minority in the land of Midian. the latter is also referred to as (the land of) “Kushan” in the Hebrew bible. Kush, as word,…

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

La “Cueva de Judas” es el nombre local de una cueva ubicada en la Montaña de Al Qarah, en El Hasa, Arabia Saudita, que se nombra así por la tradición de que Judas Iscariote se refugió allí. La cueva se encuentra en la provincia oriental de Arabia Saudita y es una de las varias formaciones kársticas de…

Judas Cave lies tucked within the honeycombed limestone of Qarah Mountain, a place where the desert light fractures across pale cliffs and the air cools as you step into the mountain’s interior. The mountain itself rises just outside the urbanized part of Al‑Hasa (N.E. Arabia). Its fluted ridges and narrow passages inviting the kind of…

Chaldea (Akkadian: mat Kaldi) is an ancient toponym designates a geomorphologically and historically delimited region comprising the extreme meridional sector of Mesopotamia together with the northwestern littoral zone of the Arabian Gulf. Archaeological and epigraphic finds — including Proto‑Arabic / Chaldean inscriptions in northeastern Arabia — indicate that some Chaldean tribal elements were present in…

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.

Egypt means: “narrow passage”, in referring to the narrow land bridge, between the Levant and North Africa.