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The cataloguing of all is the end of all. This is literally apocalypse. The word apocalypse comes from the Greek word apokálypsis, which means to uncover the hidden, i.e. reveal. We’ve known all along that the revealing of something is its end. And we’re revealing all things.
Brian Lange • Article
The world “apocalypse” is born of the Greek apokálypsis , meaning revelation, or hidden knowledge. The etymology suggests a divinely ordered retribution, a punitive conclusion, a Judgment Day when all will be revealed. It carries the idea that some mighty righteousness will organize our madness and impose justice on all the awful things we witness... See more
J Wortham • My 10-Day Crash Course on Surviving the Apocalypse
Beyond Egypt, almost all of the other countries and powers of the second millennium BC in the Aegean and Near East—those that had been present during the golden years of what we now call the Late Bronze Age—withered and disappeared, either immediately or within less than a century. In the end, it was as if civilization itself had been wiped away in
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Singer was undoubtedly correct, for one of the letters found in the House of Urtenu at Ugarit in northern Syria refers to a famine ravaging the city of Emar in inland Syria at the time that it was destroyed in 1185 BC. The letter was sent by someone named Banniya (or Eniya), who worked for Urtenu’s commercial firm but was stationed in a branch
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