This video highlights chapter 6 of the leading article "Meluhha, Gerrha, and the UAE -- The Search for National Identity of a Young Nation" as per below. The chapter deals with the identification of the Assyrian -- Babylonian toponymics Tilmun (Bahrain), Magan (Qatar), and Meluhha (Emirates). <br /> <br />Incorporating Meluhha and the Assyrian -- Babylonian references to it in their National Emirati History, today's Emiratis can achieve a more accurate and complete perception of their national identity and cultural heritage; that is why the present subject is vital for course of History offered in the Primary and Secondary Education at the UAE whereby the Ancient History of the UAE is gravely underestimated and disregarded. <br /> <br />Meluhha, Gerrha, and the UAE -- The Search for National Identity of a Young Nation. <br /> <br />https://www.academia.edu/23214313/Meluhha_Gerrha_and_the_Emirates_by_Muhammad_Shamsaddin_Megalommatis <br /> <br />By Prof. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis <br /> <br />Main Chapters <br /> <br />I. National History, National Identity and Colonialism <br />II. Orientalism and Hellenism <br />III. UAE Historical Heritage Threatened by Academic Colonialism <br />IV. Neighboring Nations & Cultures -- Key Components of UAE National History <br />V. National History of the Emirates - Diachronic Trends <br />VI. Assyrian - Babylonian Literature about UAE territory: Meluhha <br />VII. Assyrian -- Babylonian 'Meluhha': UAE territory, not Indus Valley <br />VIII. Assyrian -- Babylonian Texts about Meluhha -- Emirates <br />IX. Meluhha -- Emirates, and the Late Use of 'Meluhha' in Assyrian Imperial Annals <br />X. The Aramaean Foundations of UAE History: the Rise of Gerrha (539 BCE -- 642 CE) <br />XI. Gerrha, Achaemenid Iran, and the Interconnectedness between Africa and Asia <br />XII. Gerrha's Prominence in Antiquity - Harbinger of the Present UAE Rise <br />XIII. Gerrha and Alexander the Great <br />XIV. Why Gerrha Cannot Be Located in Al Ehsa Province of Saudi Arabia <br />XV. Macedonian Naval Expeditions around the Peninsula, and Gerrha <br />XVI. Arsacid Parthian Iran, Seleucid Syria, Ptolemaic Egypt, and Gerrha <br />XVII. Agatharchides on Gerrha and the Sabaean (Sheba) Yemenites <br />XVIII. The Romans in Egypt, the Roman Naval Expedition in Yemen, and Gerrha <br />XIX. Strabo's Textual References to Gerrha <br />XX. Gerrha and the Anonymous Author of the Text 'Periplus of the Red Sea' <br />XXI. Pliny the Elder and Gerrha <br />XXII. Ptolemy the Geographer - his Description of Yemen, Oman, and the Emirates <br />XXIII. Sharjah (Sarkoe) aand Umm Quwain (Kawana) Mentioned by Ptolemy the Geographer <br />XXIV. The Correct Location Gerrha in UAE, and Ptolemy the Geographer <br />XXV. Western UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Al Ehsa as per Ptolemy the Geographer <br />XXVI. UAE Islands Mentioned by Ptolemy the Geographer <br />XXVII. The Rise of the Sassanid Empire of Iran, and the End of Gerrha
