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98 relations: Agam Kuan, Akkadian language, Alexander Cunningham, Alois Anton Führer, Archibald Sayce, Aryan, Aryan race, Ashoka's Hell, Assyriology, Babylonia, Battle of Peking (1900), Boxer Rebellion, British Army, British expedition to Tibet, British Indian Army, British Museum, Brutus of Troy, Buddhism, Charles Tate Regan, China War Medal (1900), Christian O'Brien, Civilization, Darjeeling, Darjeeling district, David MacRitchie, Doctor of Law, Early Dynastic Period (Egypt), Encyclopædia Britannica, Ethel Bristowe, Exploration, Folklore, Francis Younghusband, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Giant babax, Grafton Elliot Smith, Gymnocypris waddellii, Harappa, Harry L. Shapiro, Henry Eeles Dresser, Historia Regum Britanniae, History, History of Asia, Hittite language, Hittites, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Hyperdiffusionism, Indian Medical Service, Indiana Jones (character), Indo-European languages, Indus Valley Civilisation, ... Expand index (48 more) »
- Amateur archaeologists
- British military personnel of the British expedition to Tibet
- Hyperdiffusionism
Agam Kuan
Agam Kuan (अगम कुआं, "unfathomable well") is an ancient well and archaeological site in Patna, India.
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Akkadian language
Akkadian (translit)John Huehnergard & Christopher Woods, "Akkadian and Eblaite", The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages.
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Alexander Cunningham
Major General Sir Alexander Cunningham (23 January 1814 – 28 November 1893) was a British Army engineer with the Bengal Sappers who later took an interest in the history and archaeology of India. Laurence Waddell and Alexander Cunningham are Himalayan studies.
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Alois Anton Führer
Alois Anton Führer (26 November 1853 – 5 November 1930) was a German indologist who worked for the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
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Archibald Sayce
Archibald Henry Sayce (25 September 18454 February 1933) was a pioneer British Assyriologist and linguist, who held a chair as Professor of Assyriology at the University of Oxford from 1891 to 1919.
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Aryan
Aryan or Arya (Indo-Iranian arya) is a term originally used as an ethnocultural self-designation by Indo-Iranians in ancient times, in contrast to the nearby outsiders known as 'non-Aryan' (an-arya).
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Aryan race
The Aryan race is a pseudoscientific historical race concept that emerged in the late-19th century to describe people who descend from the Proto-Indo-Europeans as a racial grouping.
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Ashoka's Hell
Ashoka's Hell was, according to legend, an elaborate torture chamber disguised as a beautiful palace full of amenities such as exclusive baths and decorated with flowers, fruit trees and ornaments.
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Assyriology
Assyriology (from Greek Ἀσσυρίᾱ, Assyriā; and -λογία, -logia), also known as Cuneiform studies or Ancient Near East studies, is the archaeological, anthropological, historical, and linguistic study of the cultures that used cuneiform writing.
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Babylonia
Babylonia (𒆳𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠) was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in the city of Babylon in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Syria and Iran).
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Battle of Peking (1900)
The Battle of Peking, or historically the Relief of Peking, was the battle fought on 14–15 August 1900 in Beijing, in which the Eight-Nation Alliance relieved the siege of the Peking Legation Quarter during the Boxer Rebellion.
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Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion, also known as the Boxer Uprising or the Boxer Insurrection, was an anti-foreign, anti-imperialist, and anti-Christian uprising in North China between 1899 and 1901, towards the end of the Qing dynasty, by the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, known as the "Boxers" in English due to many of its members having practised Chinese martial arts, which at the time were referred to as "Chinese boxing".
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British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.
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British expedition to Tibet
The British expedition to Tibet, also known as the Younghusband expedition, began in December 1903 and lasted until September 1904.
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British Indian Army
The Indian Army during British rule, also referred to as the British Indian Army, was the main military force of the British Indian Empire until 1947.
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British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.
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Brutus of Troy
Brutus, also called Brute of Troy, is a mythical British king.
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Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
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Charles Tate Regan
Charles Tate Regan FRS (1 February 1878 – 12 January 1943) was a British ichthyologist, working mainly around the beginning of the 20th century.
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China War Medal (1900)
The China War Medal 1900 was a British campaign medal approved on 1 January 1902 for issue to British and Indian land and sea troops who served during the Boxer Rebellion, between 10 June and 31 December 1900.
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Christian O'Brien
Christian Arthur Edgar "Tim" O'Brien (9 January 1914 – 17 February 2001) was a British exploration geologist and author.
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Civilization
A civilization (civilisation) is any complex society characterized by the development of the state, social stratification, urbanization, and symbolic systems of communication beyond signed or spoken languages (namely, writing systems and graphic arts).
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Darjeeling
Darjeeling is a city in the northernmost region of the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Darjeeling district
Darjeeling District is the northernmost district of the state of West Bengal in eastern India in the foothills of the Himalayas.
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David MacRitchie
David MacRitchie (16 April 1851 – 14 January 1925) was a Scottish folklorist and antiquarian.
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Doctor of Law
A Doctor of Law is a doctorate in legal studies.
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Early Dynastic Period (Egypt)
The Early Dynastic Period, also known as Archaic Period or the Thinite Period (from Thinis, the hometown of its rulers), is the era of ancient Egypt that immediately follows the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt in.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Ethel Bristowe
Ethel Susan Graham Bristowe, also known as E.S.G. Bristowe (1864–1952) was a British painter, and an early 20th-century author on alternative theories within Assyriology.
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Exploration
Exploration is the process of exploring, an activity which has some expectation of discovery.
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Folklore
Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture.
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Francis Younghusband
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, (31 May 1863 – 31 July 1942) was a British Army officer, explorer and spiritual writer. Laurence Waddell and Francis Younghusband are British explorers and British military personnel of the British expedition to Tibet.
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Geoffrey of Monmouth
Geoffrey of Monmouth (Galfridus Monemutensis, Galfridus Arturus; Gruffudd ap Arthur, Sieffre o Fynwy) was a Catholic cleric from Monmouth, Wales, and one of the major figures in the development of British historiography and the popularity of tales of King Arthur.
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Giant babax
The giant babax (Pterorhinus waddelli) is a species of bird in the laughingthrush family Leiothrichidae, found in India and Tibet.
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Grafton Elliot Smith
Sir Grafton Elliot Smith (15 August 1871 – 1 January 1937) was an Australian-British anatomist, Egyptologist and a proponent of the hyperdiffusionist view of prehistory. Laurence Waddell and Grafton Elliot Smith are hyperdiffusionism.
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Gymnocypris waddellii
Gymnocypris waddellii is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to Tibet.
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Harappa
Harappa is an archaeological site in Punjab, Pakistan, about west of Sahiwal.
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Harry L. Shapiro
Harry Lionel Shapiro (March 19, 1902 – January 7, 1990) was an American anthropologist and eugenicist.
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Henry Eeles Dresser
Henry Eeles Dresser (9 May 183828 November 1915) was an English businessman and ornithologist. Laurence Waddell and Henry Eeles Dresser are Fellows of the Linnean Society of London.
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Historia Regum Britanniae
(The History of the Kings of Britain), originally called (On the Deeds of the Britons), is a pseudohistorical account of British history, written around 1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth.
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History
History (derived) is the systematic study and documentation of the human past.
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History of Asia
The history of Asia can be seen as the collective history of several distinct peripheral coastal regions such as East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Middle East linked by the interior mass of the Eurasian steppe.
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Hittite language
Hittite (𒌷𒉌𒅆𒇷|translit.
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Hittites
The Hittites were an Anatolian Indo-European people who formed one of the first major civilizations of Bronze Age West Asia.
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Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery
The Hunterian is a complex of museums located in and operated by the University of Glasgow in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Hyperdiffusionism
Hyperdiffusionism is a pseudoarchaeological hypothesis that postulates that certain historical technologies or ideas were developed by a single people or civilization and then spread to other cultures.
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Indian Medical Service
The Indian Medical Service (IMS) was a military medical service in British India, which also had some civilian functions. Laurence Waddell and Indian Medical Service are Indian Medical Service officers.
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Indiana Jones (character)
Dr.
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Indo-European languages
The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent.
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Indus Valley Civilisation
The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), also known as the Indus Civilisation, was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE.
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John Marshall (archaeologist)
Sir John Hubert Marshall (19 March 1876, Chester, England – 17 August 1958, Guildford, England) was an English archaeologist who was Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India from 1902 to 1928. Laurence Waddell and John Marshall (archaeologist) are Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire.
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Julius Oppert
Julius (Jules) Oppert (9 July 1825 – 21 August 1905) was a French-German Assyriologist, born in Hamburg of Jewish parents.
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Kapilavastu (ancient city)
Kapilavastu was an ancient city in the eastern Nepal which was the capital of the clan gaṇasaṅgha or "republic" of the Shakyas in the late Iron Age, around the 6th and 5th centuries BC.
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Kolkata
Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Konbaung dynasty
The Konbaung dynasty (ကုန်းဘောင်မင်းဆက်), also known as the Third Burmese Empire (တတိယမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်), was the last dynasty that ruled Burma/Myanmar from 1752 to 1885.
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Lhasa Tibetan
Lhasa Tibetan, or Standard Tibetan, is the Tibetan dialect spoken by educated people of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region.
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Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.
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Linnean Society of London
The Linnean Society of London is a learned society dedicated to the study and dissemination of information concerning natural history, evolution, and taxonomy.
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Manishtushu
Manishtushu (Man-ištušu) (Ma-an-ish-tu-su) c. 2270-2255 BC (middle chronology) was the third (or possibly second) king of the Akkadian Empire, reigning 15 years from c. 2270 BC until his death in c. 2255 BC.
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Master of Surgery
The Master of Surgery (Latin: Magister Chirurgiae) is an advanced qualification in surgery.
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Menes
Menes (mnj, probably pronounced *; Μήνης and Μήν) was a pharaoh of the Early Dynastic Period of ancient Egypt, credited by classical tradition with having united Upper and Lower Egypt, and as the founder of the First Dynasty.
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Mentioned in dispatches
To be mentioned in dispatches (or despatches, MiD) describes a member of the armed forces whose name appears in an official report written by a superior officer and sent to the high command, in which their gallant or meritorious action in the face of the enemy is described.
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Minoan civilization
The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age culture which was centered on the island of Crete.
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Mohenjo-daro
Mohenjo-daro (موهن جو دڙو,; موئن جو دڑو) is an archaeological site in Larkana District, Sindh, Pakistan.
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Mortimer Wheeler
Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler CH CIE MC TD (10 September 1890 – 22 July 1976) was a British archaeologist and officer in the British Army. Laurence Waddell and Mortimer Wheeler are Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire.
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Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.
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Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.
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North-West Frontier Province
The North-West Frontier Province (NWFP; شمال لویدیځ سرحدي ولایت) was a province of British India from 1901 to 1947, of the Dominion of Pakistan from 1947 to 1955, and of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan from 1970 to 2010.
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Old Norse
Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages.
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Order of the Bath
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by King George I on 18 May 1725.
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Order of the Indian Empire
The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire is an order of chivalry founded by Queen Victoria on 1 January 1878.
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Pataliputra
Pataliputra (IAST), adjacent to modern-day Patna, Bihar, was a city in ancient India, originally built by Magadha ruler Ajatashatru in 490 BCE, as a small fort near the Ganges river.
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Patna
Patna, historically known as Pataliputra, is the capital and largest city of the state of Bihar in India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Patna had a population of 2.35 million, making it the 19th largest city in India. Covering and over 2.5 million people, its urban agglomeration is the 15th largest in India.
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Phoenicia
Phoenicia, or Phœnicia, was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization originating in the coastal strip of the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon.
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Poetic Edda
The Poetic Edda is the modern name for an untitled collection of Old Norse anonymous narrative poems in alliterative verse.
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Ralph Lilley Turner
Sir Ralph Lilley Turner (5 October 1888 – 22 April 1983) was a British philologist of Indian languages and a university administrator.
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Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) is a long-established anthropological organisation, and Learned Society, with a global membership.
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Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, commonly known as the Royal Asiatic Society, was established, according to its royal charter of 11 August 1824, to further "the investigation of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to Asia." From its incorporation the society has been a forum, through lectures, its journal, and other publications, for scholarship relating to Asian culture and society of the highest level.
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Sanskrit
Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Scheil dynastic tablet
The Scheil dynastic tablet is an ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform text containing a variant form of the Sumerian King List.
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Scotland
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Seal (emblem)
A seal is a device for making an impression in wax, clay, paper, or some other medium, including an embossment on paper, and is also the impression thus made.
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Semitic languages
The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family.
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Sikkim
Sikkim is a state in northeastern India.
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Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet
Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, KLS (5 April 1810 – 5 March 1895) was a British East India Company army officer, politician, and Orientalist, sometimes described as the Father of Assyriology.
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Stephen Herbert Langdon
Stephen Herbert Langdon, FBA (1876May 19, 1937) was an American-born British Assyriologist.
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Stirlingshire
Stirlingshire or the County of Stirling (Siorrachd Sruighlea) is a historic county and registration county of Scotland.
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Sumer
Sumer is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC.
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Sumerian language
Sumerian (Also written 𒅴𒄀 eme-gi.ePSD2 entry for emegir.|'native language'|) was the language of ancient Sumer.
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Sumerian religion
Sumerian religion was the religion practiced by the people of Sumer, the first literate civilization found in recorded history and based in ancient Mesopotamia, and what is modern day Iraq.
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Syro-Hittite states
The states called Neo-Hittite, Syro-Hittite (in older literature), or Luwian-Aramean (in modern scholarly works) were Luwian and Aramean regional polities of the Iron Age, situated in southeastern parts of modern Turkey and northwestern parts of modern Syria, known in ancient times as lands of Hatti and Aram.
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The British Edda
The British Edda is a 1930 English book written by Laurence Waddell about the adventures of El, Wodan and Loki forming an "Eden Triad" in the Garden of Eden.
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Thibaw Min
King Thibaw, also Thebaw or Theebaw (သီပေါမင်း,; 1 January 1859 – 19 December 1916), was the last king of the Konbaung dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) and also the last Burmese monarch in the country's history.
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Tibet
Tibet (Böd), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about.
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Totnes
Totnes is a market town and civil parish at the head of the estuary of the River Dart in Devon, England, within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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Translation
Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text.
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University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow (abbreviated as Glas. in post-nominals) is a public research university in Glasgow, Scotland.
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W. J. Perry
William James Perry (1887–1949), usually known as W. J. Perry, was an academic in cultural anthropology at University College, London. Laurence Waddell and w. J. Perry are hyperdiffusionism.
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See also
Amateur archaeologists
- Alfred Watkins
- Bill Wyman
- Charles Dawson
- Don C. Miller
- Frank Calvert
- George Currie (musician)
- George McJunkin
- Henry Underhill
- J. T. Diamond
- Laurence Waddell
- Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola
- Marion Campbell (archaeologist)
- Michael Sinclair Sanders
- Nora Benjamin Kubie
- Peter Wescombe
- Robert Munro (archaeologist)
- Ron Wyatt
- Thomas Stuart Ferguson
- Tjerk Vermaning
- Tony Robinson
- Victor Guérin
- William Pengelly
British military personnel of the British expedition to Tibet
- Cecil Rawling
- David MacDonald (trade agent)
- Francis Younghusband
- Frederick Marshman Bailey
- Frederick Percival Mackie
- James Macdonald (British Army officer)
- John Duncan Grant
- Laurence Waddell
- Leonard Arthur Bethell
- William Frederick Travers O'Connor
Hyperdiffusionism
- Archaeological interest of Pedra da Gávea
- Atlantic voyage of the predecessor of Mansa Musa
- Barry Fell
- Burrows Cave
- Cultural diffusion
- Frank Collin
- George F. Carter
- Grafton Elliot Smith
- Hyperdiffusionism
- Institute for the Study of American Cultures
- Laurence Waddell
- Olmec alternative origin speculations
- Olmecs
- Panbabylonism
- Pedra da Gávea
- Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories
- Sino-Babylonianism
- Theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas
- W. J. Perry
References
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