The Sabians were allowed to build a new Temple of the Moon God, and to continue their religious rites, after the Arab General Ibn Ghanam conquered Harran in the seventh century AD. This in itself is a...
What would have made [seeing Göbekli Tepe from Harran] easier, in antiquity, would have been a tall tower annexed to the temple that once stood here--a temple dedicated to (usually contracted to ), t...
Cainan (sometimes the name is spelled Kainam) was the son of Arpachsad: And the son grew, and his father taught him writing, and he went to seek for himself a place where he might seize for himself a...
Thabit ibn Qurra (AD 836-901, and also born in Harran), would have had little patience with loaded terms like star idolatry which seek to place the paganism of the Sabians on a lower level than the de...