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Levant's Agora

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Just like ancient Agoras, & their importance in human history, our objective is to become the virtual place where the many aspects of life can be explored.

Joined February 2021
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Z-Network: Strait of Hormuz: A Constant in Iranian History

By M. Reza Behnam. Long before it became the jugular vein of the modern global economy, this narrow waterway was the sacred and strategic maritime gateway to the Persian empire The strategic and sp…

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levantsagora.wordpress.com/2… #Hormuz #Crusades #History

History Today: The Crusade of Hormuz

By John Aspinwall. Looking for a new route to Jerusalem, medieval crusaders turned to the Strait of Hormuz. In 1514, as the new dome of St Peter’s Basilica began to rise above Rome, one of its cano…

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levantsagora.wordpress.com/2… #Pyramids #Giza #earthquakes #engineering

Live Science: Great Pyramid of Giza is remarkably resilient to earthquakes —‬ and it’s due to the...

By Stephanie Pappas. Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza, also known as the Great Pyramid of Khufu, has stood for more than 4,600 years, even through powerful earthquakes. Now, new research explain…

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levantsagora.wordpress.com/2… #Roman_Empire #History

Live Science: Why did the Roman Empire split in two?

By Joe Phelan. The vast empire was divided into two states in the fourth century A.D. An old adage states that Rome wasn’t built in a day, meaning that big projects take time to complete. The…

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levantsagora.wordpress.com/2… #Science

ScienceAlert: Evidence of Ancient Life Found Buried Under an Asteroid Crater

By Michelle Starr. Somehow, on this beautiful blue marble we call Earth, the astonishing phenomenon we call life emerged long ago, spreading until it covered nearly every corner of the planet. One …

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levantsagora.wordpress.com/2… #Society #Socialmedia

Cyprus Mail: Is demographic collapse a good idea?

By Gwynne Dyer. Smart phones seem to be directly linked to a worldwide crash in the birth rate. It is “quite plausible that the modern digital media environment has had profound effects on society …

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levantsagora.wordpress.com/2… #Iliad #Homer #Egyptology #History #mummy

The Conversation: Why was an Egyptian mummy stuffed with a fragment of Homer’s Iliad?

By Stephan Blum & Stefan Baumann. Archaeologists have found something unexpected inside a 1,600-year-old Roman-era Egyptian mummy: a fragment of Homer’s Iliad. It wasn’t placed beside the body,…

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levantsagora.wordpress.com/2… #Romanempire #history

Live Science: Why did the Roman Empire split in two?

By Joe Phelan. The vast empire was divided into two states in the fourth century A.D. An old adage states that Rome wasn’t built in a day, meaning that big projects take time to complete. The…

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levantsagora.wordpress.com/2… #archaelogy

Live Science: Great Pyramid of Giza is remarkably resilient to earthquakes —‬ and it’s due to the...

By Stephanie Pappas. Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza, also known as the Great Pyramid of Khufu, has stood for more than 4,600 years, even through powerful earthquakes. Now, new research explain…

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levantsagora.wordpress.com/2… #mesopotamia #History #Society

The Conversation: Gender ambiguity was a tool of power 4,500 years ago in Mesopotamia

Gender-ambiguous people in ancient Mesopotamia were powerful and important members of society more than four millennia ago. Today, trans people face politicization of their lives and vilification f…

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History Today: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades levantsagora.wordpress.com/2… #Acre #Constantinople #Crusades #History #Kingdom_of_Jerusalem #Levant #Saladin

History Today: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades

By Roger Crowley. The Crusader state of Acre was the most cosmopolitan city in the medieval world. Its inhabitants thought it too valuable to destroy. They were wrong. When the churchman Jacques de…

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Live Science: Did Japan have female samurai? levantsagora.wordpress.com/2… #Japan #samurai #History

Live Science: Did Japan have female samurai?

By Owen Jarus. The samurai are renowned as skilled warriors, but were any of them women? The samurai of Japan are famous for being skilled warriors who followed a code of honor. In popular culture …

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History.com: This Day In History (May 19-2016): EgyptAir flight 804 disappears over the Mediterranean Sea levantsagora.wordpress.com/2… #Egypt
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Fascinating stories from the past you can trust, plus hit shows.

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Levant Agora’s Music Selection For Saturday 18 October 2025

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Live Science: When were birthday parties invented?

By Kristina Killgrove. Although many researchers assume that birthday celebrations date back to the ancient Egyptians, the earliest textual evidence of a birthday party proves these annual events a…

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History Today: The Master and Mikhail Bulgakov

By Alexander Lee. In the chaos unleashed by the October Revolution, Mikhail Bulgakov found a past become fragmented and confused, and history the domain of madmen and devils. Mikhail Bulgakov wasn’…

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Live Science: How is Roman concrete still standing after 2,000 years? levantsagora.wordpress.com/2…

Live Science: How is Roman concrete still standing after 2,000 years?

By Elana Spivack. Roman concrete’s durability comes from a combination of its ingredients and production methods. Nearly two millennia after the height of the Roman Empire, some of its struct…

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The Archaeologist: New genetic data reveal a strong Greek genetic footprint in Carthage levantsagora.wordpress.com/2…

The Archaeologist: New genetic data reveal a strong Greek genetic footprint in Carthage

By Dimosthenis Vasiloudis. How and when did the first populations move into North Africa? What is the significance of the detected “Aegean/Greek DNA”? How did the Carthaginians maintain…

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ScienceAlert: The Modern Cat May Have Emerged From Ancient Egyptian Ritual Sacrifice levantsagora.wordpress.com/2…

ScienceAlert: The Modern Cat May Have Emerged From Ancient Egyptian Ritual Sacrifice

By Tessa Koumoundouros. The macabre world of ancient Egyptian ritual sacrifice may have contributed to the domestication of cats, new research suggests. Mummified cats (Felis catus) were such a com…

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The Conversation: Uncorking the past: new analysis of Troy findings rewrites the story of wine in the early bronze age levantsagora.wordpress.com/2…

The Conversation: Uncorking the past: new analysis of Troy findings rewrites the story of wine in...

By Stephan Blum. Wine drinking in ancient Troy was not restricted to the upper classes, as has long been supposed – something our new research has established for the first time. Colleagues at the …

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