Topic > Mesopotamian and Egyptian Myths - 779

Life on earth began long ago. The planet was just a piece of rock without any life. Then simple life forms such as bacteria began to appear on earth. Over time, life forms began to evolve. Life forms become more complicated. Eventually, humans arrive on the blue planet in the guise of Adam and Eve. As time passes, human relationships become more connected and their mental abilities have leapt to a higher level. The ancients learned that living in a group is better than living alone. Because groups can hunt larger prey and groups can protect themselves very well. So, they collaborated together. Next, they began to explore their surroundings. They discovered new things and invented other things that satisfied their needs. Eventually, the groups gathered into larger groups, and those large groups joined together to build a civilization. Archaeologists define civilization as the social system whose members share a certain culture, have economic sources, government, traditions, geographical position. Both civilizations that I will compare in this research are very ancient. Both civilizations share the same similarities and at the same time differ from each other. Like Mesopotamia, ancient Egyptian civilization was very old. But Mesopotamia was older than the ancient Egyptian civilization. Mesopotamia began around 10,000 BC, but ancient Egypt began in 3,050 BC, the city of Babil, the largest civilization in Uruk, began in 3,000 BC, while the Nile civilization, the major civilization of ancient Egypt, began in 2920 BC (See figure NO#1). We can see that both ancient civilizations are close to the river (source of fresh water), while the UAE is surrounded by salt water sources and deserts far from... middle of paper... there are other people claim that the hieroglyphic language in Egypt was the origin of languages ​​and this is a misconception because the Sumerian language is much older than the hieroglyphic language in Egypt. The Sumerian language, similarly to the hieroglyphic language, is a sculptural language. (See figure NO#3). Also there is some evidence that people spoke the same language for a certain period of time. The original meaning of the word "Babil" in the ancient languages ​​is "The door of the goddess", but if we search the original languages ​​for the meaning of this word we will find that the meaning of those words is chaos or meaningless speech. For example in Arabic the noun "بلبلة" "Belbalah" means chaos and confusion. Also in Hebrew it derives from the verb “بلل” “Balel” which means to confuse. The English verb “babble” also means to speak without meaning.