COMPARING the two parallel civilizations the Mesopotamian and the Pharaonic, we saw how, during the third millennium BC, the Sumerian followed by the Akkadian civilizations developed in Mesopotamia, while the Old Kingdom flourished in Egypt. The Old Kingdom is distinguished … Continued
IN the last two articles, we were addressing the Mesopotamian and the Egyptian civilizations; we started talking about what happened just before Egypt got united under the role of King Narmer at the beginning of the third millennium BC. We … Continued
LAST week we started talking about parallels between the Mesopotamian and the Pharaonic civi1isations. We explained how the Sumerian civilisation, which occupied the southern part of Iraq during the first half of the third millennium BC, lost its power to … Continued
WE started talking in the previous article about the two civili¬sations: the Pharaonic and the Mesopotamian that started simultaneously 5000 years ago in what we called «A Tale of Two Civilisations”. Now we are going to concentrate on the first … Continued
THERE is a big debate between archaeologists and historians over which of the two oldest civilisations preceded the other: the Pharaonic or the Mesopotamian. In spite of this question, there are the two oldest civilisations and are considered to be … Continued
AS previously mentioned in the articles of this series, the Steering Committee of the Memory of the Arab World Project convened twice, first in Sharjah and later in Damascus. The focus of this article is the third meeting of that … Continued
THE past articles, printed in this corner, explained how the project the “Memory of the Arab World” started and how the first meeting of me steering committee place, which ended up bringing into being the Shariqa Declaration in Egypt and … Continued
WE explored in the last two articles how the idea of a pan¬-Arab heritage project was developed under the umbrella of the Arab League and coordinated by the Centre for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CULT¬NAT). At the beginning … Continued
IN the previous article, it was explained how we, at the Centre for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CULTNAT), and trying to make use of our accu¬mulated experience to expand a regional portal, which can be used by Arab … Continued
TRYING to record the memory of the Arab world is almost an impossible mission. Yet, getting into that venture was just after our Centre for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CULTNAT) had gone on another impossible mission by taking … Continued