Inconvenient historical realities have never discouraged rulers from reshaping the history of Babylon in their own image and generating new myths in the process. One of the most brazen examples is ...
The history of Egypt at this time is almost a blank and the doings of even major Babylonian kings like Nebuchadnezzar have had to be reconstructed from a few building inscriptions supplemented by ...
Plimpton 322 is the name given to a 3,800-year-old clay tablet discovered in Iraq in the early 20th Century by archeologist Edgar J Banks, the man believed to have inspired Indiana Jones.
Hayim Lapin - Professor of History and Robert H. Smith Professor of Jewish Studies ... recommend Monika Amsler’s well written and carefully argued new monograph, The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique ...