The Mesopotamian and Egyptian Myths

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Life on the earth started long ago. The planet was just a piece of rocks without any life forms. Then simple life forms began to appear on the earth such as Bacteria. Through time, life forms started to evolve. The life forms become more complicated. Finally, humans come out to the blue planet with the appearance of Adam and Eve. By the time passage, humans relationships become more connected and their mental abilities jumped up to a higher level. Ancient people learned that living in groups better than living alone. Because groups can hunt bigger prey and groups can protect themselves very well. So, they teamed up together. Next, they started to explore the environment around them. They discovered new things and invented other things that satisfied their needs. Eventually, groups gathered in bigger group and those big groups united together to build a civilization.

Archeologists define civilization as the social system whose members shares the some culture have an economical sources, government, traditions, geographical location. Both civilizations that I'm going to compare in this research are very old. Both civilizations share same similarities and in the same time they differ to each other. Same as Mesopotamia the ancient Egyptian civilization was very old. But, Mesopotamia was older than the ancient Egyptian civilization. Mesopotamia started about 10,000 B.C yet the ancient Egypt started 3,050 B.C. Babil city the greatest civilization of Uruk started 3000 B.C yet the Nile civilization the main civilization in the ancient Egypt started 2920 B.C. (Look at the figure NO#1). We can see that the both old civilization are near river (fresh water source), while U.A.E. are surrounded by salt water sources and deserts far away from ...

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...re are some other people saying that the Hieroglyphic language in Egypt was the origin of languages and that is a wrong idea because the Sumerian language is much older than Hieroglyphic language in Egypt. The Sumerian language likewise the Hieroglyphic language is a sculpting language. (Look at the figure NO#3).

Also there are some evidence that People were talking the same language from a period of time. The origin meaning of the word "Babil" in ancient languages is "The gate of goddess", but if we search in the original languages about the meaning of this word we will find that the meaning of those words are either chaos or talking without meaning. For example in Arabic the noun "بلبلة" "Belbalah" means chaos and confusion. Also in Hebrew it comes from the verb "بلل" "Balel" which means to confuse. Also the English verb "babble" it means talking without meaning.

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