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Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, the Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians, provoked a storm when she said she wanted to ‘make ...
Circumcision: Demonic Practice or Theological Covenant. Yigal Bin-Nun . The practice of foreskin removal likely originated in a popular belief rooted in the fear of harm caused by ...
The idea is as old as time, at least since Lagash, a Mesopotamian city that imposed ... which in those times consisted mostly of slaves. The north criticised the south over the practice, prompting ...
The head, or "keeper," of the Department of Oriental Antiquities was a learned Egyptologist, Samuel Birch, who had no direct expertise in Mesopotamian studies and left the supervision of the ...
Slavery was supported by the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi, a list of hundreds of laws that were in place in ancient Mesopotamia. While Ancient Egyptians didn’t abide by the old text, it largely ...
Accordingly, there are records of land conflict dating to ancient Mesopotamia, as well as land disputes from ... in democracy among smallholding settlers in New England, the slavery and plantation ...