Babylonia was a state in ancient Mesopotamia, located in present-day Iraq. The city of Babylon, which you've probably heard ...

From Tehran's prisons to Haifa's shelters, Payam Feili, who fled his native country as a gay writer, expresses his concern ...

The kingdom of Israel was overthrown in ca. 722 BCE by the Neo-Assyrian empire, centred in what is now Iraq (ancient Mesopotamia), and Israel” ceased to be a geographic entity of the ancient Middle ...

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At Opis, Alexander the Great confronted a mutiny of his army, caused by simmering tensions between the Macedonians and ...

Cyrus the Great, the compassionate and tolerant Babylonian who unified Iranian tribes in 549 BC to create the Persian empire, advised leaders to seek “diversity in counsel and unity in command”, and ...

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 ...

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His empire controlled much of the Near East up to Egypt. In October 539 BC, Cyrus invaded Babylonian lands. The elderly Nebuchadnezzar had died in 562 BC and had been succeeded by his son Amel-Marduk, ...

And another angel followed, saying, “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen…” Revelation, 14:08 This verse from the Bible likely sounds familiar to many; it refers to the conquest of the Mesopotamian ...