Monthly Archives: Sep 2021

Yakın tarihe kadar ‘yasaklı diller’ listesinde yer alan Kürtçe, son 10 yıldır sanat, edebiyat ve kültürde yaygın olarak kullanılmaya başlandı. Kürtçe’nin gelişmesi için çalışma yürüten kurumlar, dilin kaybolmaması için Anayasal güvence istedi. Kürdistan Ulusal Kongresi’nin (KNK) Kürtçe’ye geliştirme ve yaygınlaştırma amacıyla Kürt Dil Bayramı ilan ettiği 14 Mayıs’ta Kürtçe’ye ilişkin yasaklar sürüyor. Türkiye’de, 20 milyonContinue reading “Kürtçe ikinci resmi dil olsun (imza kampanyaya link attım)”

Illnesses such as Autism are caused by genetic mutations passed on from parents and expressed in the sufferer. If these genes are not expressed in the possessor, they may simply be passed on through the bloodline until they are expressed further down the generations. Many factors, such as the parents’ age1, contribute to gene mutations,Continue reading “Smoking, Alcohol and Vaccines Cause Autism and other Disabilities in Unborn Children”

A new study is presenting archeological evidence of the oldest known bone tools used for making clothes. The tools, found in a cave in Morocco, suggest humans were skinning animals for fur to wear as clothes up to 120,000 years ago. Studying the history of human clothing is tricky business. Most of the materials ourContinue reading “Oldest archeological evidence of clothes making found in Moroccan cave”

The eroded camel reliefs in Saudi Arabia date from the Neolithic period A team of archaeologists has determined that a set of camels carved into three rock spurs in  Northern Saudi Arabia are between 7,000 and 8,000 years old, making them older than the Pyramids of Giza and Stonehenge.   Initially, experts believed that the camelContinue reading “Ancient Camel Sculptures Are Older Than the Pyramids and Stonehenge, Scientists Discover”

The rare artifacts were probably used as both weapons and symbols of power Archaeologists excavating a tomb at one of Scotland’s oldest known monuments have discovered two polished, 5,500-year-old stone balls, reports Alison Campsie for the Scotsman. The team made the find at Tresness, a chambered cairn on the Orkney island of Sanday that dates to around 3500 B.C.E. “A cracking find fromContinue reading “Polished, 5,500-Year-Old Stone Balls Found in Neolithic Scottish Tomb”

Ever since the days of Homer, Greeks have long idealized their Mycenaean “ancestors” in epic poems and classic tragedies that glorify the exploits of Odysseus, King Agamemnon, and other heroes who went in and out of favor with the Greek gods. Although these Mycenaeans were fictitious, scholars have debated whether today’s Greeks descend from theContinue reading “The Greeks really do have near-mythical origins, ancient DNA reveals”