As much as John misses his past homeland in the nation of of Iran, and currently anguishes over the future of his spiritual ...

My dear friend Frances Coppola and I were walking home last week and discussing empires – as girls do – when she reminded me ...

While contemplating the horror of two young and soon-to-be-engaged Israeli Embassy employees who were gunned down by a man shouting "free Palestine" and "I did it for Gaza," outside the ...

Spanning millennia, from the Achaemenid Empire to modern times ... Persian Jews trace their origins to the Babylonian Exile, with many choosing to remain in Persia even after they had the ...

Cyrus, founder of the Achaemenid Empire, usually appears in Greek sources as an exemplary ruler and clement king, an image backed by Babylonian ... dramatic historical art, this 1835 mezzotint ...

Unlike the Babylonian seal, much of the iconography ... While not as central to Achaemenid iconography as it was in Assyrian art, the symbol did appear in Achaemenid contexts. In the Achaemenid Empire ...

The two layers excavated dated to the Sasanian period—an empire ruled between 224–651 C.E—and the ancient Babylonian period—ruled between ca. 1894 and 1595 B.C.E. The deeper Babylonian ...

Lunar eclipses were one such astrological event closely watched by those who advised Babylonian kings ... were almost uniformly bad news for the empire, though some signaled destruction for ...

Babylonian Empire (1894 B.C. to 224 CE), In Mesopotamia and Babylon ... Cylinder seals: a Documentary Essay on the Art and Religion of the Ancient Near East. MacMillan and Co., Pl. XXVIII e+i Burke, ...

It grew into one of the largest cities of the ancient world, leaving its mark on history through architecture, language, art, religion, and science. Want to discover more about this fascinating empire ...