Back to “Hatikvah.” It is not just the national anthem of both the state of Israel, and the entire Jewish people. That is because the greatest invention is hope — the idea that tomorrow might be ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon ... their religious practices. Rather than wiping out local deities, they folded them into the Hittite Empire and pantheon. Holy statues from temples ...

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only exception?

There's still a lot left to learn when it comes to ancient history, and scientists are still finding locations long since ...

turning it into one vast religious center spanning both sides of the Nile. Large additions were made to the Karnak and Luxor temples on the Nile's east bank, both of which had begun as small ...

the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia. Why should a collection of monuments more ...

The first is a series of religious tensions ... rising on the horizon from the temple they might have remembered the words of the psalm, "By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down, and we ...

In addition to that there were racial and religious suspicions and prejudices ... They found no home in Egypt or in Babylon. Since their long exile they have found no home as a people in any ...

Second, they provided something to talk about that did not involve religion, politics or race ... that the schools were also overcrowded in Babylon. Those who fled the terrors of drugs soon ...