Category: Toponyms

No biblical sites can be identified with high degree of certainty, only few identification can be considered proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. [01] One reason is that Emperor Constantine, the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity, sent his mother Helena, in 320s, to travel around to identify Biblical sites. Helena (questionably) “discovered”…

Noah’s ark story originated in southern Mesopotamia. The resting place of the Mesopotamian Noah, after the flood, was Dilmun. Dilmun encompassed Bahrain, Kuwait and eastern Saudi Arabia.

“Ur of the Chaldees”/“Ur of the Chaldeans” or “Ur Kasdim” is a place-name mentioned in the Bible as the homeland of biblical Abraham. The toponym’s primordial Hebrew designation is ‘אוּר כַּשְׂדִּים’, conventionally rendered in scholarly transliteration as ʾŪr Kaśdīm (or, alternatively, ‘uwr Kašdīm).” “Ur Kasdim” presents a toponym whose morphology and semantic range remain subjects…