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On the anniversary of America’s independence, the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass made a biblical Psalm – Psalm 137 – ...
The Babylonian Exile was a very painful period in Jewish history in which King Nebuchadnezzar II destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple and moved 20,000 people 900 miles east to Babylon, ...
The "oldest map of the world in the world" on a Babylonian clay tablet was deciphered to reveal a surprisingly familiar story, according to the British Museum's Irving Finkel.
O’Brien’s great imagination brings the story of exile to life with the use of myriad gritty details — the devil in the details, as it were. First, there is the forced march from Jerusalem to ...
Addressing a special convention of the Israel Bible Research Society held at Lydda to mark the 2,500th anniversary of the return of the Jews from Babylonian exile, Mr. Ben Gurion said that in both ...
How 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablets help scientists unravel one of the weirdest mysteries in space Archaeomagnetism helps us understand spacecraft hiccups — and why the humanities are crucial ...
Clay bricks from the building projects of ancient kings recorded a historical “map” of changes in the Earth’s magnetic field, a new study has found. About 3,000 years ago, for reasons that ...
A Babylonian inspired-pyramid that turned out to be a white elephant is now set for demolition in one of California’s priciest real estate markets. A bidder whose name hasn’t yet been revealed ...
And then, after nine years of autonomy in the Babylonian Empire, the Babylonian army began its siege on Jerusalem on the 10th of Tevet. It was the last stage before the final obliteration of ...
Ancient Babylonian tablet suggests Pythagoras did NOT discover the famous theorem - but only popularized it 1,000 years later. Ancient Greek Pythagoras is credited for creating the Pythagorean theorem ...