Saddam Husein rebuilt Nebuchadnezzar's palace in the ancient city of Babylon - and then erected a magnificent palace for himself that rises still higher. Do Nebuchadnezzar and the long-lost city of…
The Two Babylons is Hislop's most famous work. In this book he argues that the Roman Catholic Church is nothing more than pagan cult, with roots in Babylonian mystery cults, which have a bank of se…
High in the snow-covered mountains of Armenia lie the sources of two great rivers, the Euphrates and the Tigris, which flow, at first in oppiste directions and evebtually meet as they enter the sea.
Thirteen scholars explore possible points of connection between the Bible and its ancient Near Eastern context, illuminating the methadologies, contributions, and limitations of both biblical studi…
Ancient Mesopotamia—the area now called Iraq—has received less attention than ancient Egypt and other long-extinct and more spectacular civilizations. But numerous small clay tablets buried in …