by Isaac Asimov
Philistines, 323, 324
Phoenicia. 325
Photosynthesis, 27
Phrygians, 291
Pison, 80
Pitch, 359
Planets, 31, 37, 62
Plankton, 39
Plants, 27, 45, 56, 261
Polygamy, 156
Polytheism, 50, 130, 192, 365
Pottery, 358
Pre-Adamites, 149, 152
Primates, 51, 55, 195
Prometheus, 68, 285
Pterosaurs, 40
Quotation marks, 15
Radiation, 17
Rain, 22, 24
Rainbow, 269
Relativity, General Theory of, 16
Reptiles, 48
Revised Standard Version, 15, 64
Rhodes, 298
River civilizations, 22
Romulus, 196
Sabbath, 62
Sacrifices, 142, 143, 144
Saint Augustine, 6
Sargon of Agade, 312, 367, 379
Satan, 112
Scythians, 293
Sea life, 39
Sea monsters, 41
Semitic languages, 284
Sephardim, 293
Serpent (Snake), 91, 106, 107, 108, 112, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121
Sex, 45, 54, 100, 122, 136
Shalmaneser I, 318
Shatt-al-Arab, 77, 78
Sianna, 332
Sidon, 325
Signs, 31
Simarra, 334
Sin, 145
Sirrush, 118
Six, 57
Sky, 7
Smith, 137
Snake (see Serpent)
Sodom, 339
Solar myths, 184, 185
Solar system, 9, 16
Sophocles, 177
Soul, 70
Space, 21
Species, 28, 42, 46
extinctions of, 60, 265
number of, 210, 213
Spirit, 13
Stars, 37
evolution of, 60
Storm demons, 133, 134
Sumerians, 72, 73, 75, 311, 314, 361, 367
Flood and, 203
legendary history of, 162, 177, 185, 203
Sun, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35
evolution of, 60, 257
formation of, 9, 16
Syria, 348
Tarsus, 296
Tetragrammaton, 65
Thermodynamics, second law of, 9
Tiamat, 12, 15, 112
Tigris River, 77, 78, 79, 85, 80, 87
Titian, 177
Towers, 360, 361, 362, 367
Trinity, 50
Tsunami, 226, 243
Tubal, 161
Tukulti-Ninurta I, 309, 318, 348
Unclean animals, 219, 221
Universe, beginning of, 5
change in, 60
oscillating, 16, 17
Ur, 379, 380, 381
Urartu. 243
Uruk. 311
Ussher, James, 4
Ut-Napishtim, 203, 206, 208, 247, 256
Valhalla, 269
Vegetarianism, 55, 125
Verses, Biblical, 3
Week, 62
Whales, 40, 41
William the Conqueror, 262
Wine, 274, 275
Woman, 92, 93, 99, 100, 102
Wooley, Charles Leonard, 203
Yahveh, 65
Yiddish, 293
Ziggurats, 367, 368
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