Tell Brak, ancient Nagar, is a tell, or settlement mound, in the Upper Khabur area in Al-Hasakah Governorate, northeasternSyria. The site was occupied between the sixth and second millennia BC. At 40 metres (130 ft) in height, and an area of approximately 130 hectares (320 acres), it is one of the largest archaeological sites in northern Mesopotamia. It was taken over during the “Syrian Civil War” by the People’s Protection Units, as well as its surrounding settlements.
Their ancestors were the Halaf and Ubaid.
They date back to 6100 BC.
They had connection with the Tamils and this is reflected in the ruins of Nagar.
These people traded with the Tamils.
”Naram-Sin traded with Meluhha (almost certainly corresponding to the Indus Valley civilization), and controlled a large portion of land along the Persian Gulf. He expanded his empire by defeating the King of Magan at the southern end of the Persian Gulf, and conquering the hill tribes to the north in the Taurus Mountains
The location of Meluhha, however, is hotly debated. There are scholars today who confidently identify Meluhha with the Harappan Civilization, in modern Pakistan, on the basis of the extensive evidence of trading contacts between Sumer and this region. Sesame oil was probably imported from the Indus valley into Sumer: the Sumerian word for this oil isillu (Akkadian: ellu). In Dravidian languages of South India el or ellu stands for sesame’
Nagar’ (नगर) is Sanskrit for ‘city’ or ‘settlement’. So is the name Naram Sin, it seems to be a deviation of the Sanskrit ‘narsimha’ meaning ‘man-lion’, a name fit for a king. Narsimha is also another name for the fourth avatar of the Vedic God Vishnu. Here are two steles of the Akkadian King Naram Sin – the link to man-lion is evident.
There are also finds with three figures resembling either Rama ,Lakshman and Sita or Krishna, Balarama and Subhadra.
Syrian Archeological Finds, Krishna,Balaraa and Subhadra or Rama ,Lakshmana and Sita?
Lord Rama seems to have been popular in Mesopotamia anda Chapel of Lord Rama was found by archeologists.
‘Ur (Sumerian: Urim;[1] Sumerian Cuneiform: 𒋀𒀕𒆠URIM2KI or 𒋀𒀊𒆠URIM5KI;[2] Akkadian: Uru;[3] Arabic: أور) was an importantSumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar (Arabic: تل المقير) in south Iraq’s Dhi Qar Governorate.[4] Although Ur was once a coastal city near the mouth of the Euphrates on the Persian Gulf, the coastline has shifted and the city is now well inland, south of the Euphrates on its right bank, 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) from Nasiriyah.[5]
Map showing Ur in Mesopotamia.Image credit odysseyadventures
The city dates from the Ubaid period circa 3800 BC, and is recorded in written history as a City State from the 26th century BC, its first recorded king being Mesh-Ane-pada. The city’s patron deity was Nanna (in Akkadian, Sin), the Sumerian and Akkadian (Assyrian-Babylonian) moon god, and the name of the city is in origin derived from the god’s name, URIM2KI being the classical Sumerian spelling of LAK-32.UNUGKI, literally “the abode (UNUG) of Nanna (LAK-32)”
‘One of the major triumphs of modern archaeology was the hair-raising discoveries of Sir Leonard Woolley at Ur. Amidst the ruins of Ur, he unearthed a Ram-chapel but totally missed its relevance in world history. This crucial finding not only bridges the wide gaps between Indian tradition and archaeology but also unfolds the historic bonds that once united ancient India, Iran and Sumer. Ram-Sin of (Larsa) to whose memory this chapel was dedicated must have been Rama of Valmiki. The name Ararama of Larsa may be an echo of Rama. This Ram-Chapel of Ur is the earliest known memorial to the great Rama and may have been erected by Dilmun merchants who resided nearby. Dilmun was always mentioned in the Sumerian texts together with Magan and Melukkha and it is possible that these three states were somehow allied to each other.’
‘ In the highly authentic Sumerian king list appears such hallowed names as Bharat (Warad) Sin and Ram Sin. As Sin was the Moon god Chandra Ram Sin can be seen to be same as Rama Chandra. Bharat Sin ruled for 12 years (1834-1822 BC), exactly as stated in the Dasaratha Jataka. The Jataka statement, “Years sixty times hundred, and ten thousand more, all told, / Reigned strong-armed Rama”, only means that Rama reigned for sixty years which agrees exactly with the data of Assyriologists. Ram Sin was the longest reigning monarch of Mesopotamia who ruled for 60 years. The mention of the father in the inscriptions of both Warad Sin and Ram Sin is noteworthy and may point to a palace intrigue. Joan Oates is not aware of the Ramayana but writes with great insight (p. 61) that Warad sin was manoeuvred to the throne by his father. In Mesopotamia, a prince normally became king only after the death of his father. Lakshmana, mentioned the Bible as Lakhamar, ruled as a great king.
“Ur was a city in the region of Sumer, southern Mesopotamia, in what is modern-day Iraq. According to biblical tradition, the city is named after the man who founded the first settlement there, Ur, though this has been disputed. The city’s other biblical link is to the patriarch Abraham who left Ur to settle in the land of Canaan. This claim has also been contested by scholars who believe that Abraham’s home was further north in Mesopotamia in a place called Ura, near the city of Harran, and that the writers of the biblical narrative in the Book of Genesis confused the two. Whatever its biblical connections may have been, Ur was a significant port city on the Persian Gulf which began, most likely, as a small village in the Ubaid Period of Mesopotamian history (5000-4100 BCE) and was an established city by 3800 BCE continually inhabited until 450 BCE.”
To be Honest all media projects are political;depends on one’s view.
That apart .the inter-cine feud between the sects of Islam is well known.
They normally fight it out.
Saudi is sending its troops to Bahrain;what will it do for its internal uprising?
Call in US?
London, The Truth (Special): Detection of a British journalist in the Department of editing news channel “Al Jazeera English” that the Board of Directors of Al-Jazeera network had received instructions from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is to “distinguish between the Gulf and other Arab countries, while coverage of the Arab uprisings.” The journalist said in the e-mail contact with the “truth” that the Directive includes the stations of Arab and international (English). According to the same source, directing foreign country asked, “Al Jazeera” to deal with any uprisings or popular movements in any of the Gulf States “from the political differences between the Gulf States and Iran, and on the background,” and “shed light on the nature of the Shiite and content sectarian This movements. ” The journalist said that the consideration to a channel “Al Jazeera” as “the maker of revolutions” in the Arab world, “it turns out, at least for me, that lie and myth have crept into the public opinion after the success of the station in the coverage of the revolutions of Tunisia and Egypt, has helped her chance on that,” pointing out that the station, “landed a knockout and bared its mask from the first moment of the explosion of the situation in Bahrain last month, missed the event completely covered, although dozens of the protestors were falling dead by the police in Bahrain, and when she returned recently, however it, it looked as if they were transmitted from inside the studios, TV the Bahraini government. “
The source revealed that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs requested the “network” to host the largest possible number of media, analysts and public figures Gulf espousing the views of the anti-Iran “as in the case of an event Gulf, and away you may as possible from hosting the symbols and figures of the opposition in these countries, in particular Bahrain, which today form the focus of the event in the Gulf region. ” The source said that “Al Jazeera” has become a copy of the channel “Arab” in all matters relating to affairs of the Gulf, and this confirms once again that it is “primarily a political project, not a media project.”
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Directives of Foreign Affairs of Qatar’s “Al-Jazeera network,” the distinction between coverage of the uprisings in the Arab world and their counterparts in the Gulf
Requests guidance from the “network” of dealing with uprisings and social movements in the Gulf countries on the basis of an extension of the Sunni-Shiite sectarian polarization and political Iranian Gulf!?
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