Northern Lights, definition and study. A-Z index of Cognitio. It is an optical phenomenon of the Earth’s atmosphere, characterized mainly by luminous bands of a wide range of shapes and colors rapidly changing in time and space, typically red-green-blue, called aurora arches. The phenomenon…
Angkor, definition and study. A-Z index of Cognitio. Angkor is the most important archaeological site in Cambodia and one of the most important in Southeast Asia. In the period between the ninth and fifteenth century it hosted the capital of the Khmer Empire,…
Algol, definition and study. A-Z index of Cognitio. Algol is a star system in the constellation Perseus, 93 light years away from the solar system. It is the best known binary eclipse, the first of this type to be discovered, and is also…
al-Fayyum, definition and study. A-Z index of Cognitio. al-Fayyum, is a city in Egypt, the capital of the homonymous governorate. It is located 130 km south-west of Cairo and occupies part of the ancient city Crocodilopoli. The city of al-Fayyum is located within…
Epic Gilgamesh mentions the Anunnaki? Original article by Alessandro Brizzi. The Anunnaki are mentioned in the Epic of Gilgamesh, the classic version, then in the Akkadian language when Utanapištim tells the story of the Flood. According to this tradition, the Anunnaki had set…
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