Ancient Nubia shared many aspects of its mythology with ancient Egypt and there is debate about the original source of some religious concepts that the two cultures share and, whether the assimilation was from Nubia to Egypt, the reverse, or through continuing exchanges.

The story of Jonah is set against the background of Ancient Israel in the 8th-7th centuries BC but deals with the religious and social issues of the late 6th-4th centuries BC, coinciding with the views of latter chapters of the book of Isaiah ( Third Isaiah ), where Israel is given a prominent place in the expansion of God's kingdom to the Gentiles.

Ancient authors credited him and Homer with establishing Greek religious customs.

Ancient structures with possibly astronomical alignments ( such as Stonehenge ) probably fulfilled both astronomical and religious functions.

Byzantine music is vocal religious music, based on the monodic modal singing of Ancient Greece and the pre-Islamic Near East.

The event was organized by Ellinais, an organization which won a court battle to obtain recognition for Ancient Greek religious practices in the fall of 2006.

Theology ( from Ancient Greek meaning " God " and ,-logy, meaning " study of ") is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.

In Iron Age I the religious life of ordinary Israelites, like that of other peoples throughout the Ancient Near East, was organised around the family-based cult of the ancestors and devotion to a local god, the " god of the fathers ".

Isis (, original Egyptian pronunciation more likely Aset ) is a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world.

The most famous example of a widespread religious movement practicing lechery as a ritual would be the Bacchanalia of the Ancient Roman Bacchantes.

Most Ancient Egyptian festivals were religious, but others were not such as one festival established by Rameses III to celebrate his victory over the Libyans.

The horrific subject matter of the Massacre of the Innocents also provided a comparison of ancient brutalities with early modern ones during the period of religious wars that followed the Reformation-Bruegel's versions show the soldiers carrying banners with the Habsburg double-headed eagle ( often used at the time for Ancient Roman soldiers ).

Gorgons were a popular image in Greek mythology, appearing in the earliest of written records of Ancient Greek religious beliefs such as those of Homer, which may date to as early as 1194 – 1184 BC.

Beginning with the Middle Kingdom Nun is described as " the Father of the Gods " and he is depicted on temple walls throughout the rest of Ancient Egyptian religious history.

The introduction of Christianity and Muslim beliefs followed as well, and by the sixth century AD only a few vestiges of Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs remained, although the cult of Isis had spread to the ends of the Roman Empire.

Major powers, such as Ancient Rome and the British who had colonial vassals, would especially receive many such political hostages, often offspring of the elite, even princes or princesses who were generally treated according to their rank and put to a subtle long-term use where they would be given an elitist education or possibly even a religious conversion.

Hieroglyphs also describe " walking statues " being used in Ancient Egyptian religious dramas.

It also contains evidence of adaptations, using buildings of the Ancient Egyptians by later cultures for their own religious purposes.

Indeed, there was little distinction for the Ancient Egyptians between magical and religious practice.

Joseph Justus Scaliger (; August 5, 1540, Agen – January 21, 1609, Leiden ) was a French religious leader and scholar, known for expanding the notion of classical history from Greek and Ancient Roman history to include Persian, Babylonian, Jewish and Ancient Egyptian history.

At around 2000 BC, Ancient China was the first civilization who began the use of incense in the religious sense, namely for worship.

Some of these cities are or were also religious centres, e. g. Constantinople ( more than one religion ), Rome ( the Roman Catholic Church ), Jerusalem ( more than one religion ), Ancient Baghdad, London ( the Anglican Church ), Moscow ( the Russian Orthodox Church ), Belgrade ( the Serbian Orthodox Church ), Paris, and Peking.

In Ancient China, monks used forms of naphtha to prepare in religious ceremonies such as Chimbohduh.

Ancient Chinese Buddhism never fully recovered from the persecution, and many esoteric elements were infused into other Buddhist sects and traditions.

The term clone is derived from the Ancient Greek word κλών ( klōn, “ twig ”), referring to the process whereby a new plant can be created from a twig.

* In the Stargate Universe TV series, an Ancient spaceship, Destiny, travels to an artificial source of CMBR with indications that the universe as we know it might have been created by some form of sentient intelligence.

The first known states were created in Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, the Americas ( e. g. Aztec civilization, Inca civilization ) and others, but it is only in relatively modern times that states have almost completely displaced alternative " stateless " forms of political organization of societies all over the planet.

In an effort to spur membership, at the June 6, 1876 meeting of Mecca Temple, the Imperial Grand Council of the Ancient Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America was created.

From 1882 Pitt Rivers served as Britain's first Inspector of Ancient Monuments: a post created by anthropologist and parliamentarian John Lubbock who was married to Pitt Rivers ' daughter, Alice.

The origins of the pipe organ can be traced back to the hydraulis in Ancient Greece in the 3rd century BC, in which the wind supply was created with water pressure.

Silt, deposited by annual floods along the Nile River, created the rich, fertile soil that sustained the Ancient Egyptian civilization.

In 1866 he left Liverpool for the vicarage of Wisbech, and in 1867 he was appointed dean of Chester Cathedral, where he gave himself vigorously to the work of restoring the crumbling fabric, collecting nearly £ 100, 000 in five years for this purpose His restoration created a great debate and led in part to formation of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.

The genus Coloeus, from the Ancient Greek κολοιός ( koloios ) for jackdaw, was created by Peter Pallas in 1766, though most subsequent works have retained the two jackdaw species in Corvus.

Following some investigation by local residents Richard Davies and Mike Price, the Ancient Cwmbran & The Cistercian project was created and a £ 48, 000 grant has been provided by the Heritage Lottery Fund to explore some previously unrecorded sites of interest in the Greenmeadow and Thornhill, Cwmbran areas.

The main palace at Ebla was also found to contain " antiques " dating from Ancient Egypt with the names of pharaohs Khafra and Pepi I. Handicrafts may also have been a major export: exquisite artifacts have been recovered from the ruins, including wood furniture inlaid with mother-of-pearl and composite statues created from different colored stones.

Like the Ancient Greeks, the Maya created clay slips from a mixture of clays and minerals.

One of the most famous of these was Theodor Narbutt who edited Ancient Greek myths and created new Lithuanian ones.

In 2004, the Brooklyn Museum of Art created a display entitled " Jewish Life in Ancient Egypt: A Family Archive From the Nile Valley ," which featured the interfaith couple of Ananiah, an official at the Temple of Yahou ( a. k. a. Yahweh ), and his wife, Tamut, who was previously an Egyptian slave owned by a Jewish master, Meshullam.

However, a formal Neo-Grec group of artists was created in the mid 19th century after growing interest in Ancient Greece and Rome, and especially the later excavations at Pompeii.

The region was named Helvia in Julius Caesar's De Bello Gallico, with Alba-la-Romaine as capital city, then Vivarais from the mediaeval times after the see of Viviers, a region of Languedoc province during Ancient Regime until départements were created at the French Revolution.

Since the Wraith were created by the Iratus bug absorbing Ancient DNA, the Wraith language seems to be a derivative of the Ancient language, and the two use the same writing system ; the Wraith language is therefore relatively easy to translate by experienced Ancient speakers.

In Ancient Greek religion, a holy water called chernips was created when extinguishing in it a torch from a religious shrine.

The study of Ancient Greece especially in Protestant countries created an alliance between Greece and Protestant Christianity which tended to exclude other influences.

A plate created during the Early Dynastic period of Ancient Egypt.

Ancient classical astrologers created weather forecasting known as meteorology by noting the positions of stars, planets, the Sun, and Moon.

Pigskin 621 A. D. described itself as " Ancient Archrivals on a Rampage ", in reference to two earlier Midway games created by Jeff Nauman and Brian Colin, Arch Rivals and Rampage.