What was the first thing scientists discovered? A historian makes the case for Babylonian astronomy
Science uses careful, organized observations and tests to construct theories that are recorded, passed on to others and built ...
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Miracle of Jewish survival: History and meaning of Purim
The Purim story begins about 900 years after the Exodus from Egypt, in what is now Iran, history repeats itself. The Jews had been living in Israel continually, since they first entered with Joshua.
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Interesting facts about the Babylonian Empire
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Ceramics reveal the boundaries of Western Europe’s first state
El Argar had a centralized system for the production and distribution of its pottery vessels and clay objects, all made from material sourced from a single location ...
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The Rest of the World at the time of Classical Greece
the Persian Empire succeeded the Babylonian Empire in becoming the dominant power of the Near East. Drawing on the rich history of 'multi-national' empires that had dominated the region since the ...
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Beautiful Babylon: Jewel of the Ancient World
By 1000 B.C., the Assyrians, who had established a powerful empire in northern Mesopotamia, gained the upper hand. But despite periods of stable rule, Babylon would always fall to someone else.