An older site that contains some beautiful pics of some great ancient art

A world famous treasure of health and beauty since ancient times considered to be lifeless Situated on the Syrian-African fault, the Dead Sea was created by a natural upheaval millions of years ago, which exposed layers of ancient mineral-rich earth.

For a block or two in every direction from Arbell Matthews' home, 50 or so African-Americans could be heard belting out the Shema, an ancient Hebrew prayer, gospel-style. They had spent a year and a half traveling almost weekly to Rabbi Lynn Goldstein's home in Maryland Heights, a journey that would bring them back to this cramped white

A shofar is a natural instrument made from a ram’s horn (ashkenazi shofar) or an African antelope yemenite shofar). In ancient times, it was blown during religious ceremonies as well as a signal for battle. Today, shofars are blown during the high holiday services, during Rosh Hashanah and at the end of Yom Kippur.

Humans basically court each other one-on-one today, but 2 million-year-old skulls tucked away in South African caves suggest that our ancient male relatives dated troops of females.

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