Word: mesopotamia
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Winged Creature. He was not a Christian invention. One of his most persistent forms in the popular imagination?the horned, winged creature with claws?dates at least as far back as ancient Mesopotamia, where it was the image of Pazuzu, the malaria-bearing demon of the southwest wind, the "king of the evil spirits of the air." In the Old Testament the Devil was satan, the Hebrew word for adversary, as in the Book of Job. Throughout the Old Testament, he remains clearly subject to the wrath and will of Yahweh. But the New Testament began to give the Devil...
...biblical times when the country was called Mesopotamia, the name became almost a synonym for a rich and fertile land, blessed by nature. Now the place is called Iraq. It is an oven-hot, barren landscape with a population of 9,750,000 and only one significant natural resource: oil. But today's energy-hungry technology has made Iraq's expansive oilfields the focus for half the world's attention...
...Hacilar deposit was uncovered by British Archaeologist James Mellaart after he had been led to the spot by a Turkish farmer in 1956. Mellaart's find reversed the long-held belief that Anatolia, the area that is now Turkey, was only peripheral to the advanced Neolithic culture of Mesopotamia. So great was the wealth of the material found at Hacilar that some historians concluded that Anatolia, rather than Mesopotamia, was the cradle of civilization...
Lamberg-Karlovsky says the civilization existed at the same time as the earliest known centers of urban society in Mesopotamia...
...team of archaeologists has been trying to explore the relationships, especially trade, between the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia 600 miles to the west, and the Indus Valley, 600 miles to the east...