Tigris
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Oct 30, 2026
Gideon LevytamHOST
until three whole weeks were fulfilled.
Gideon LevytamHOST
And in the four-and-twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river which is Chidekel, or the Tigris River, then I lifted up mine eyes and looked, and behold, a certain man, clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz, his body also was like the barrel, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as the lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in color to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
Gideon LevytamHOST
And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision.
Gideon LevytamHOST
For the men that were with me saw not the vision, but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves.
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An important investigation was published in January 2013 in the Journal of Archaeological Science.
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Tristan Carter, Sarah Grant, Metin Kartal, Aytakş Koşkun, and Vicihi Özkaya examined obsidian artifacts from Kürtik Tepe, an early settlement on the Upper Tigris River in southeastern Turkey.
JamesHOST
Their paper, Networks and Neolithization,
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Sourcing Obsidian from Cortic Tepe, Essie Anatolia, investigated 120 artifacts dating from the Epipaleolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic A-periods.
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The stability that had taken hold in the central stretches of the route soon extended its influence westward, where the Parthian Empire served as the primary gatekeeper for goods heading toward the Mediterranean.
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Parthian rulers, operating from their capital at Cessiphon along the Tigris River, collected fees on caravans passing through their territories and carefully managed contacts with both eastern suppliers and western buyers.
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This arrangement allowed them to profit substantially from the resale of Chinese silk and other luxuries, which they sold at marked-up prices to Roman merchants who gathered in cities like Antioch and Palmyra.
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Roman authors of the time noted the high cost of these imports.
Jon PowersSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So I want to take you into Baghdad.
Jon PowersSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We lived in Uday Hussein's bombed-out palace on the Tigris River.
Jon PowersSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Our war room was a dining room table.
Jon PowersSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We had combat commanders, intel officers, logistics experts.
Otha TurnboughHOST
In the Old Testament, they could not use, they could not move as fast as they can today because of the mechanism of praying in other tongues.
Otha TurnboughHOST
On April 23rd, as I was standing on the bank of the great Tigris River, I looked up and saw a man dressed in linen clothing with a belt of pure gold around his waist.
Otha TurnboughHOST
His body looked like a precious gem, his face flashed like lightning, and his eyes flamed like torches.
Otha TurnboughHOST
His arms and feet shone like polished bronze, and his voice roared like the vast multitude of people.
Kevin WilsonHOST
Now, the people of Iraq will tell you that there are two rivers in Iraq.
Kevin WilsonHOST
One is the Tigris River.
Kevin WilsonHOST
The other one I'm not going to try to pronounce.
Kevin WilsonHOST
But that really plays a major role in their daily life.
Kevin WilsonHOST
Around 75% of the population of Iraq lives between the Tigris River and the other river.
Kevin WilsonHOST
Iraq has a very small strip of coastline along the Persian Gulf.
Kevin WilsonHOST
It's only about 36 miles.
Kevin WilsonHOST
Okay, so that is pretty cool.
Eric DemingGUEST
My next platoon after that was before 9-11.
Eric DemingGUEST
Saddam was smuggling oil out of Kuwait or excuse me, out of the Tigris River.
Eric DemingGUEST
We were based in Kuwait and we take the smugglers down before they got into Iranian waters.
Eric DemingGUEST
And that was the only real world type stuff that was going on.
Jeremy LewisHOST
the south, yeah.
Jeremy LewisHOST
So Baghdad sits between the Tigris and the Euphrates.
Jeremy LewisHOST
When you go through Baghdad, you basically have one on the south side, which is the Euphrates, and then on the north is the Tigris.
Jeremy LewisHOST
Once you're north of
Terry LewisHOST
the Euphrates, you're in the town.
Raoul McLaughlinGUEST
A lot of them are almost... subject kingdoms.
Raoul McLaughlinGUEST
And the great capital of the Parthian Empire beyond the Euphrates boundary is Seleucia on the Tigris and a kind of twin city on the other side that's built to, I think it's Strabo or Strabo, yes, who says it is built according to Parthian tastes.
Raoul McLaughlinGUEST
So their architecture, their political systems.
Raoul McLaughlinGUEST
And they fight as step horsemen, the Parthians.
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Raoul McLaughlinGUEST
So maybe that's his excuse, because he does.
Raoul McLaughlinGUEST
He turns back.
Raoul McLaughlinGUEST
He doesn't realize that only 200, 300, 400 miles up the Euphrates or the Tigris would have taken him to the frontiers of Roman Syria.
Raoul McLaughlinGUEST
If he had reached Zugama, he would have been escorted.
Kyle SefcikHOST
I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.
Kyle SefcikHOST
And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, As I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel, then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz, whose body also...
Kyle SefcikHOST
And I Daniel alone saw the vision for the men that were with me saw not the vision but But a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves.
Kyle SefcikHOST
Therefore I was left alone, and I saw this great vision.
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