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From the blog of Micah Ben David Naziri at The Times of Israel

This is a reply to a guest article on Jonathan MS Pearce’s atheist blog, by “Lex Lata”: a sharp and civil atheist commentator (a professor?), with whom I I reply to an atheist regarding Joshua's conquest, and show how in two areas, Bible proponents agree with skeptics, while profoundly disagreeing on a third aspect.

The Oxus Civilisation (or Bactrio-Margian Archaeological Complex BMAC) was the main archaeological culture of the Bronze Age in Southern Central Asia. Paleogenetic analyses were previously conducted mainly on samples from the eastern part of BMAC. The population associated with BMAC descends from local Chalcolithic populations, with some outliers of steppe or South-Asian descent. Here, we present new genome-wide data for one individual from Ulug-depe (Turkmenistan), one of the main BMAC sites, located at the southwestern edge of the BMAC. We demonstrate that this individual genetically belongs...

EOKA terror group killed over 370, displaced 25,000-30,000 Turkish Cypriots during Christmas season of 1963

From the blog of David Kolinsky at The Times of Israel