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, ...

On the anniversary of America’s independence, the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass made a biblical Psalm – Psalm 137 – ...

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 ...

The Prophet Ezekiel’s memories of serving as a priest – the son of Buzi – in the Jerusalem Temple earlier in his life must have fortified him in exile. The Babylonian superpower first ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Babylonian tablet preserves student's 4,000-year-old geometry mistake. News. By Kristina Killgrove published 2 December 2024 A small clay tablet from the site of Kish in Iraq reveals a student ...