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

Scholars have found a 3,000-year-old Babylonian hymn praising the city, its citizens, and deity Marduk, with the help of A.I.

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, ...

I’m old enough to remember this song my parents’ generation loved to sing in church. Here is a verse: “This world is not my home, I’m just a passing through. My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond ...

Researchers used AI to decode a Babylonian text lost for 1,000 years, revealing new details about life and culture in ancient ...

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 ...

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.

Peter John Beyfus is an historian, published author, poet, and a person who prides himself on “thinking outside the box”. I have written many essays on Jewish themes, published in various ...

Seventy years later, the Persian King Cyrus conquered Babylonia. He invited a group of Judeans to return to the land of Israel under the leadership of Ezra and Nehemiah. With that act, he helped ...