The Bible depicts Nebuchadrezzar II and his city as doomed, but to his own people, he restored Babylon to glory. A snarling lion from the sixth century B.C. once lined Babylon’s broad Processional Way ...

From the very beginning to the very end, in Old Testament and New, from Genesis to Revelation, Babylon, the great city to the east, haunts the Bible. The first reference is to the construction of the ...

We know they sat on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates, and that they wept. But a new exhibit at Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum puts faces and names to the Judean exiles in ancient Babylonia 2,500 ...

Babylon traces the story of a Jewish family, violently wrested from its land in Judea after the destruction of Solomon’s Temple, through the family’s years of exile in Babylon. The story begins in 586 ...

Next Friday marks the anniversary of the Persian ruler Cyrus the Great’s capture of the city of Babylon in 539 B.C. It was a momentous event, not only for the Persians who became de facto world ...

The narrative told in Genesis 11:1–9 is said to be an origin myth to explain why the world's peoples speak different languages. According to the tale, a united human race inhabited the land of Shinar ...

Mount Calvary Episcopal Church in Camp Hill lies thousands of miles and years away from ancient Babylon. But for a few days this summer, the staid undercroft of the church was transformed into a ...

The Bible is believed by many to span thousands of years of documented history, chronicling the rise of God's chosen people, the Israelites, and the life and death of Jesus Christ. By some estimates, ...