In reality, after the Assyrian captivity from 720 BC and after the Babylonian captivity from 586 BC, there had not been an independent sovereign Israel nation till such an independent sovereign Israel ...
In the sixth century B.C.E., the Neo-Babylonian Empire was in a nostalgic groove. Its king, Nabonidus, led by example: he venerated the customs of the Sumerian ancestors who had ruled some 1,500 years ...
Visualizing the greatest metropolis in the ancient world requires the full powers of imagination. This is partly due to simple geology. The sun-hardened mud bricks favored by Babylon’s builders have ...
A chance discovery in the ancient Mesopotamian city of Kish has provided a new and valuable piece for understanding the reconstruction work of King Nebuchadnezzar II, one of the most famous monarchs ...
What we know about Babylonia is mostly derived from clay tablets. Tens of thousands of these cuneiform texts have been found in the last century and for some periods these tell us a great deal about ...
A chance discovery in the ancient Mesopotamian city of Kish has provided a new and valuable piece for understanding the reconstruction work of King Nebuchadnezzar II, one of the most famous monarchs ...
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