EditorialClay model of a sheep's liver (used by experts in divination). Old Babylonian, about 1900-1600 BCE Probably from Sippar, southern Iraq. Length: 14.6 cm Width: 14.6 cm ANE 92668 The Babylonians believed that the world was controlled by gods and that the...
EditorialThe Hebrew prophet Jeremiah (650 BC-585 BC) weeping the misfortunes of Jerusalem. He prophesied the invasion of the Babylonians. Drawing by the Spanish illustrator Fernando Xumetra (1860-1920). Chromolithography. La Civilizacion (The Civilization), vol...
EditorialThe Western wall of the Temple in Jerusalem. Built by King Solomon, destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE, restored around 520 BCE, it was rebuilt by Herod in the 1st BCE. Shops in the Temple-wall.
EditorialThe Hebrew prophet Jeremiah (650 BC-585 BC) weeping the misfortunes of Jerusalem. He prophesied the invasion of the Babylonians. Drawing by the Spanish illustrator Fernando Xumetra (1860-1920). Chromolithography. La Civilizacion (The Civilization), vol...
EditorialMusical instruments of the Hebrews and Babylonians. Cythers, lyres, flutes, horns, bagpipes, drum, bells, etc. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's "Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of ...
EditorialPo-Shen Loh, two-time winning coach of the USA Math Olympiad Team, gives a talk on mathematical puzzles at the Museum of Math in New York on Aug. 23, 2016. (Christian Hansen/The New York Times)
EditorialPo-Shen Loh, two-time winning coach of the USA Math Olympiad Team, gives a talk on mathematical puzzles at the Museum of Math in New York on Aug. 23, 2016. (Christian Hansen/The New York Times)
EditorialCooling young woman, Naked young woman, sitting in loose kimono, herself cooling with fan, in the foreground a scratching cat, in the background a spider web and a bell in the wind., Zedekiah is captured by the Babylonians, Isoda K?ry?sai (mentioned on...
EditorialCyrus throws Daniel's prosecutors into the lion's den History of Daniel, Bel and the dragon (series title) Thesaurus sacrarum historiaru [m] veteris testame [n] ti, elega [n] tissimis imaginibus expressu [m] excelle [n] tissimoru [m] in hac arte viroru...
EditorialPanel with striding lion, Neo-Babylonian, ca. 604?562 B.C., Mesopotamia, Babylon (modern Hillah), Babylonian, Ceramic, glaze, 38.25 x 89.5 in. (97.16 x 227.33 cm), Ceramics, The Assyrian Empire fell before the combined onslaughts of Babylonians and Med...
EditorialThe Hebrew prophet Jeremiah (650 BC-585 BC) weeping the misfortunes of Jerusalem. He prophesied the invasion of the Babylonians. Drawing by the Spanish illustrator Fernando Xumetra (1860-1920). Chromolithography. La Civilizacion (The Civilization), vol...
EditorialThe Hebrew prophet Jeremiah (650 BC-585 BC) weeping the misfortunes of Jerusalem. He prophesied the invasion of the Babylonians. Drawing by the Spanish illustrator Fernando Xumetra (1860-1920). Chromolithography. La Civilizacion (The Civilization), vol...
EditorialThe Western wall of the Temple in Jerusalem. Built by King Solomon, destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE, restored around 520 BCE, it was rebuilt by Herod in the 1st BCE. Shops in the Temple-wall.
EditorialPanel with striding lion, Neo-Babylonian, ca. 604?562 B.C., Mesopotamia, Babylon (modern Hillah), Babylonian, Ceramic, glaze, 38.25 x 89.5 in. (97.16 x 227.33 cm), Ceramics, The Assyrian Empire fell before the combined onslaughts of Babylonians and Med...
EditorialMusical instruments of the Hebrews and Babylonians. Cythers, lyres, flutes, horns, bagpipes, drum, bells, etc. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's "Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of ...
EditorialClay model of a sheep's liver (used by experts in divination). Old Babylonian, about 1900-1600 BCE Probably from Sippar, southern Iraq. Length: 14.6 cm Width: 14.6 cm ANE 92668 The Babylonians believed that the world was controlled by gods and that the...
EditorialThe Western wall of the Temple in Jerusalem. Built by King Solomon, destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE, restored around 520 BCE, it was rebuilt by Herod in the 1st BCE. Shops in the Temple-wall.