Voice of History

05/07/2026

4,000-year-old city was sieged and burned.
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Archaeologists at Kurd Qaburstan in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq have uncovered rare cuneiform tablets, mass graves, and evidence of a large-scale siege nearly 4,000 years old - and what they found inside is rewriting history.

Inside a structure called the Lower Town East Palace, researchers recovered 20 cuneiform tablets and more than 100 administrative sealings, the largest tablet find yet made on the Erbil Plain.

Several tablets are dated within days of one another, a detail researchers say fits the possible timeline of the city's fall. The city had a name: Qabra. And its end was catastrophic.

Charred debris, fallen walls, and broken pottery point to a prolonged assault, making it the most complete archaeological case of Middle Bronze Age siege warfare identified in northern Mesopotamia.
The site also showed two overlapping destruction events matching historical records of Qabra's siege and conquest by Assyrian king Shamshi-Adad.

It is the first substantial group of cuneiform tablets found in the Erbil region, making the archive unusually valuable for understanding palace administration in northern Mesopotamia. Most of the texts appear to be administrative records, the kind of documents that tracked goods, labor, and palace activity.

The air-dried clay, buried for nearly 4,000 years beneath the ruins, started to crumble the moment it met modern air - meaning every second of preservation counts.

The findings make clear that northern cities like Qabra were as organized and politically significant as the more familiar southern centers of ancient Mesopotamia.

30/03/2026

30/03/2026

An Iranian missile strike on a base in Saudi Arabia damaged several military jets and destroyed a valuable E-3 Sentry early warning and control aircraft — the first known combat loss for that type.
Iranian strike destroys US AWACS, first E-3 lost in combat

On the night of 27 March 2026, Iranian missiles and drones hit Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. Images circulating online show a US E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft struck directly, with its rear section destroyed beyond repair. Analysts call it the first known combat loss of an E-3.

*Reported damage:*
- One E-3 Sentry destroyed (estimated $270–300 million)
- Five KC-135 refueling tankers damaged, some heavily
- 12 US personnel injured
- The lost aircraft reportedly tail number 81-0005, over 40 years old

US officials did not immediately confirm details, but open-source investigators and multiple media outlets cited photos and battle-damage assessments. Defense analysts describe the incident as a significant blow to US airborne surveillance capacity in the region.

24/04/2024

𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐬 – 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐎𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚
Native Americans, Red Indians, or the indigenous peoples of the Americas, are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America and their descendants. Those who live within the boundaries of the present-day United States are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, bands and ethnic groups, many of which survive as intact, sovereign nations.
Most authorities agree that the first evidence of people inhabiting North America indicates that they migrated here from Eurasia over 13,000 years ago, most likely crossing along the Bering Land Bridge, which was in existence during the Ice Age. However, some historians believe that people had migrated into the Americas much earlier, up to 40,000 years ago. These early Paleo-Indians spread throughout the Americas, diversifying into many hundreds of culturally distinct nations and tribes.
Application of the term “Indian” originated with Christopher Columbus, who, in his search for Asia, thought that he had arrived in the East Indies. However, there is considerable evidence in support of successful explorations which led to Norse settlement of Greenland, the L’Anse aux Meadows settlement in Newfoundland, and potentially others some 500 years prior to Columbus landing in the Bahamas. From the Native American aspect, many tribes’ oral histories indicate they have been living here since their genesis, as described by a wide range of creation myths.
By the time European adventurers arrived in the 15th century, scholars estimate that more than 50 million people were already living in the Americas. Of these, some 10 million lived in the region that would later become the United States. As time passed, these migrants and their descendants pushed south and east, adapting as they went. With these new arrivals came centuries of conflict and adjustment between Old and New World societies. Today, Native Americans account for about 1.5 percent of the United States population, many of whom continue to take pride in their ancestral traditions — still practicing the music, art, and ceremonies that took place many years ago

03/03/2024

The Past is finished but the Past is not dead. To be ignorant of it is to remain a child; not to remember it bounds you in the fetters of its
Confucius
Study the Past if you would define the Future.

It is necessary that you deliver YourSELF from being a Victim of History.

28/02/2024

The Massagetae also known as Sakā were an ancient Eastern A***n Saka people who inhabited the steppes of Central Asia and were part of the wider Scythian cultures.The Massagetae rose to power in the 8th to 7th centuries BC, when they started a series of events with wide-reaching consequences by expelling the Scythians out of Central Asia and into the Caucasian and Pontic Steppes. The Massagetae are most famous for their queen Tomyris's alleged defeating and killing of Cyrus of the Persia
Massagetae as the most famous nomadic tribe of Central Asia long before Berossus's time although some scholars identified the Dahae (dahiya) is sub group of Massagetae
Some authors, such as Alexander Cunningham, James P. Mallory, Victor H. Mair, and Edgar Knobloch have proposed relating the Massagetae to the Gutians ( Getae or jutes) of 2000 BC Mesopotamia, and/or a people known in ancient China as the "Da Yuezhi" or "Great Yuezhi" (who founded the Kushan Empire in South Asia).
Many scholars have suggested that the Massagetae were related to the Getae of ancient Eastern Europe.

Tadeusz Sulimirski notes that the Sacae also invaded parts of Northern India.Weer Rajendra Rishi, an Indian linguist has identified linguistic affinities between Indian and Central Asian languages, which further lends credence to the possibility of historical Sacae influence in Northern India.
Herodotus mentioned that the Massagetae worshipped only the sun god, to whom they sacrificed horses. This is seen to indicate the cult of the A***n sun god Mithra, who was associated with the worship of fire and horses. When Cyrus attacked the Massagetae, their queen Tomyris swore by the Sun to kill him if he did not return back to his kingdom.
Warfare
The Massagetae fought both on foot and on horseback, and their weapons consisted of bows and arrows, spears, and battle-axes.