The Babylonian Ruin of Esagila chronicle (BCHP 6) is a chronicle written in ancient Babylonia in the Hellenistic Period. It describes how a Seleucid crown prince (probably Antiochus, the son of king Seleucus Nicator) fell during a sacrifice on the ruin of…
Bethlehem: town in Judaea, birthplace of Jesus of Nazareth.Bethlehem
Bethlehem on the Madaba Map
Already mentioned in the Amarna Letters (fourteenth century…
Bustan esh-Sheikh: sanctuary, dedicated to Eshmun, near Sidon. The Greeks called it "the grove of Asclepius".
Babylonian and Persian terraces
Situated just…
Caesarea Maritima: Roman city, capital of of the province Judaea/Palaestina.History
Hippodrome
Phoenician port (Migdal Šoršon)
Hellenistic: Sidonian outpost named "Strato's Tower" (259 BCE:…
Capernaum: town on the northern shore of Lake Galilee.Capernaum
Capernaum's Synagogue
Allready occupied in the thirteenth century BCE
Meaning of the name: Village…
Damascus (Aramaic דמשק; Greek Δαμασκός): important city in the ancient Near East.Bronze Age
Damascus, "Street which is called Straight"
Mentioned for the…
In about 165 BCE, an anonymous Jew composed the Biblical book of Daniel. Daniel was, in his view, a Jewish prophet who had lived at the Babylonian court and had had visions of the future. Two of these visions are…