Ancient records suggest that more than 4,000 years ago, at a time when the city of Ur (in what is now southern Iraq) was the center of an empire ... in Babylon dating to this period are scarce ...

It is a joyous time when families gather for a seder ... between two great regional powers: Egypt and the Neo-Babylonian empire. Modern Passover celebrations follow the rules set out in Exodus ...

So for the first time we have an extra-biblical account of this historic event which began the period of the Jewish ... the fall of the city and the Babylonian empire passed under the sway of ...

This was the time of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, and while Babylon was (unsurprisingly ... that they were excavating Ur from its latest period, which is why the artifacts they found in one ...

The ancient tablet has been deciphered after centuries and offers a glimpse of what Babylonians believed about the known world at the time ... But the Babylonian Empire quickly fell apart after ...

Researchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet ... Mesopotamia at that time was thought to be the entire ‘known world’. The map also highlighted the belief in Marduk, the God of Creation.

The 4,000-year-old city, mentioned hundreds of times in the Bible, became the capitol of the ancient Babylonian empire and was considered ... Times “There was a period in the ’70s and ...

Although they only survive on manuscripts from the Hellenistic period, it was always assumed that these texts are copies of older compositions dating back to the time of the Neo-Babylonian Empire or ...