The Ark of the Covenant was used by the Israelites to transport the tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments.

Near the start of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, there was a massive but largely forgotten battle between the Greeks and the ...

The tablets are believed to come from Sippar - a city that flourished during the Babylonian Empire in what is now Iraq and date back to the middle and late Old Babylonian periods from about 1894 ...

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.

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Photos and story by Robert Kalfus This year’s Purim festivities at Chabad of Yonkers saw people dressed in all individual ...

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 ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Persian ruler Cyrus the Great.

Babylon 5 also featured richly developed characters ... while Londo eventually became the leader of the Centauri empire — but is manipulated by the Shadows all the while. The way characters ...