Middle East

The Birth of Western Music

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The area of the Eastern Mediterranean, Asia Minor, the Middle East, and Mesopotamia is the cradle from which today’s Western civilization originated. Various ethnic groups have mixed in this area for centuries, civilizations have risen and fallen, and as a result, different ethnic and cultural influences have merged. Centuries of interaction and cultural closeness among … Read more

Mitski’s Babylonian Roots

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Beros, a Babylonian priest, astronomer, and historian, lived, as he himself claims, during the time of Alexander the Great, at the turn of the 4th to the 3rd century BC. In addition to his astronomical works, he also wrote the History of Babylon (Babyloniaka) in three books in the Greek language, however, only fragments and … Read more