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South Americans Defining Themselves As OMPP Increased In Brazil By 32% Over Last 6 Years

YAOHSHARAL.COM – The terms pardos and pretos mean “browns,” and blacks” in Brazil, respectively. According to a survey released this month by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), from 2012 to 2018 the number of people defining themselves as pardos and pretos has jumped by almost 5 million in that country. Up until […]

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How Old Is The “Canaanite” Alphabetic Script?

The so-called Ahiram Sarcophagus discovered in 1923 by French archaeologist Pierre Montet in Jbeil, Lebanon (ancient Byblos of the Sidonians), is the oldest known Phoenician-Canaanite inscription. The sarcophagus is currently preserved in the National Museum of Beirut. The item and its inscription appears to date to the 10th century BC, and probably 945 BC to

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Ox Head Or Nah?

The paleo Phoenician-Canaanite-Byblian, Old Aramaean, and Moabite alphabetic scripts have a unique letter ‘aleph, in the shape of an ox head, where the vertical stroke crosses two diagonal strokes at or very close to their apex. However, on the inscribed artifacts of genuine “Israelite” manufacture, whether pre-exilic or post-exilic, the first letter of the paleo

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The Father of Modern Hebrew Lexicography Was Also A Freemason

Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius was born February 17, 1786, Nordhausen, Hanover, and died October 23, 1842, Halle, Prussia. Gesenius was a German biblical critic and the father of Hebrew lexicography and grammar, as well as an important figure in other Semitic language studies. Gesenius was educated at Helmstedt and at Gottingen. In 1811 he became

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