The Albanian case is very similar to the problems that the Croat 19 th century nationalists faced with the acute lack of relevant ingredients for forging the nation, what they needed: land, people, ...

Its influence has spread across different cultures, and its story has been transmitted over millennia. Recently, studies on a Hittite version of the poem have opened new perspectives on its ...

Why did you despise the word of the LORD by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the ...

Exhibitions offer a wealth of artifacts from the Assyrian, Hittite, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman civilizations. Travelers have commented on the beauty of the museum structures ...

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David had many wives. Indeed, one of the most famous stories about him is his depravity in condemning a soldier, Uriah the Hittite, to a brutal death so that David could take Uriah’s wife ...

Herodotus, Histories I.130 The Median, Lydian, and Chaldean (Babylonian) empires around 600 BC in a map by William Robert Shepherd. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons Three years later, in 547 ...

There are other remarkable scholarly insights to admire. Finkel argues convincingly that the British Museum’s famous Babylonian world map contains an allusion to the resting place of the ark. His ...