The rediscovered lines also give rare voice to Babylon’s women, especially its priestesses. It describes them as devout and ...

The Hymn of Babylon had been lost for over 2,000 years until researchers used AI to piece it together from 30 clay fragments.

A team of ancient literature experts have deciphered a Mesopotamain text that was missing for over 1,000 years. Etched on ...

The Cyrus Cylinder is often considered the first charter of human rights, inscribed with the words of King Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Achaemenid Empire.

In the first known interaction between the two nations, the ancient Persians freed the Jews from captivity in Babylon.

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, 50 miles ...

During the Babylonian exile, Jews were exposed to Zoroastrianism, which asserts there is an eternal struggle between good and evil, with good triumphing in the end.

The Exile period began in 597 BCE and ends in 538 BCE, with Persians defeating the Neo-Babylonian Empire. In 597 BCE the ruler of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, Nebuchadnezzar II, occupied Jerusalem ...

Historians detected a general trend. Before the Babylonian exile, the ardor with which Passover was observed waxed and waned. It was zealously observed in the seventh century B.C. by King Josiah.

The only one out of 150 psalms to be set in a particular time and place, it relates to the Babylonian Exile—the period between 587 and 586 B.C. in Israel’s history, when Jews were taken ...

The fifth and final season of the global hit series “Babylon Berlin” has received an official green light, and eight new episodes will be shot this fall. “Babylon Berlin” writing-directing ...

After the second Exile, when Nebuchadnezzar II’s armies destroyed the First Temple in 586 BCE, most of the Jews were taken into Babylonian captivity as slaves.