A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – After many successful campaigns in the region of the Levant (of today’s Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, and Palestine), Nebuchadnezzar suffered a heavy defeat
MessagetoEagle.com – Ancient Babylonians were excellent astronomers who wrote down their observations on cuneiform tablets. By studying ancient records of lunar and solar eclipses carved in clay tablets, dating
MessageToEagle.com – More than a thousand of years, Babylon (in Akkadian “Babilim” means “Gate of God”) was the symbol of power, greatness and destruction. For over one thousand
A. Sutherland – MessageToEagle.com – The Achaemenid Empire, better known as the First Persian Empire was founded by Cyrus the Great, one of the most outstanding figures in human
MessageToEagle.com – The history of banks can be traced to ancient Babylonian temples in the early 2nd millennium BC. In Babylon at the time of Hammurabi, there are
A. Sutherland – MessageToEagle.com – “Do not move an ancient boundary stone set up by your forefathers,” says the Bible book of Proverbs 22:28. Boundary markers for property are a very
MessageToEagle.com – This is a fragment of a circular star calendar from the underground library of King Ashurbanipal (668-627 BC) in Nineveh, Iraq. Star charts and calendars were found
MessageToEagle.com – Ancients were in possession of very sophisticated knowledge. Ancient gold and silversmiths used mercury, which was produced more than 8,000 years ago in Turkey. Mercury was used
MessageToEagle.com – What did music in ancient Babylon sound like? No-one really knows, but based on ancient Mesopotamian poems it is possible to reconstruct some music and get an
MessageToEagle.com – The fabled Hanging Garden of Babylon has since ancient times been recognized as one of the Seven Wonders of the World – but no trace of it
