Around 30 BCE, after Cleopatra, “the last Pharaoh”, committed suicide, Rome seized control of Egypt. The largest standing and tallest Egyptian obelisk is the Lateran Obelisk in the square at the west side of the Lateran Basilica in Rome at 105.6 feet (32.2 m) tall and a weight of 455 metric tons (502 short tons).

The work on the Unfinished Obelisk had been abandoned due to clearly visible cracks that appeared in the granite. The huge structure, which is partly connected to the parent rock, has been left in situ.

The success of ancient Egyptian civilization came partly from its ability to adapt to the conditions of the Nile River valley for agriculture. The predictable flooding and controlled irrigation of the fertile valley produced surplus crops, which supported a more dense population, and social development and culture.

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Brahma the Creator In the beginning, Brahma sprang from the cosmic golden egg and he then created good & evil and light & dark from his own person. He also created the four types: gods, demons, ancestors, and men (the first being Manu).

Islam is the world’s second-largest religion, after Christianity.

According to a 2017 Pew Research Center survey, by 2060 Christians will remain the world’s largest religion; and the number of Christians will reach 3.05 billion (or 31.8%)….Summary.

Despite disputes and difficulties with numbers, there are indicators such as the Danish National Research Database, that Christians are, as of 2019, the most persecuted religious group in the world.

As the most persecuted group in the world, being a Christian in many areas is a constant matter of life and death. In 2016 approximately 90,000 Christians were killed across the globe. Estimates attribute nearly a third of these deaths to the hands of ISIS and other Islamic terror groups.

In the Middle East, Zoroastrianism is found in central Iran. Today, there are estimated to be under 20,000 Zoroastrians in Iran. It is one of the oldest monotheistic religions as it was founded 3500 years ago. It was also one of the most powerful religions in the world for about 1000 years.

Puritans

Many of the founding fathers—Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison and Monroe—practiced a faith called Deism. Deism is a philosophical belief in human reason as a reliable means of solving social and political problems.

In the storybook version most of us learned in school, the Pilgrims came to America aboard the Mayflower in search of religious freedom in 1620. The Puritans soon followed, for the same reason. More than half a century before the Mayflower set sail, French pilgrims had come to America in search of religious freedom.

Early Colonial era. Because the Spanish were the first Europeans to establish settlements on the mainland of North America, such as St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565, the earliest Christians in the territory which would eventually become the United States were Roman Catholics.

Religion in the United States

• Protestantism (42%)
• Catholicism (21%)
• Mormonism (2%)
• Unaffiliated (28%)
• Judaism (1%)
• Islam (1%)
• Hinduism (1%)
• Buddhism (1%)

San Miguel Archángel

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia the Cenacle (the site of the Last Supper) in Jerusalem was the “first Christian church.” The Dura-Europos church in Syria is the oldest surviving church building in the world, while the archaeological remains of both the Aqaba Church and the Megiddo church have been considered to …