Nabonidus Chronicle The Nabonidus Chronicle records the events during the rule of the last king of Babylonia (King Nabonidus) before the Persian king Cyrus conquered the kingdom in October 539 BCE. However the Chronicles are currently damaged, leaving many blanks and spaces (or lacunas) throughout the script. The script describes how Cyrus’ power began to […]
This chronicle text surveys events in Babylonia from the reign of Nabonassar (747-734 BCE) until the accession of Shamash-shum-ukin (668-648 BCE). “He destroyed Samaria” – The major event of the five-year-rule of Shalmaneser V was the conquest of Samaria. This is the only historical datum from cuneiform sources associated with Shalmaneser, as no royal inscriptions […]
Assyrian calendar years were counted according to eponyms (Akkadian limmu/limu, literally, “circle, turn”) i.e., each year was named after a high-ranking official in the Assyrian administration; the king himself served as eponym at the beginning of his reign. The eponym system is attested from the beginning of Assyrian history in the early second millenium BCE […]
“Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it. … Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength and it was infinite…. Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity- her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets…” (Nahum […]
Inscribed on a large clay tablet, of which only three fragments are extant, was a report on Esarhaddon’s military activities, including a lengthy description of the Egyptian campaign. Most unique are the description of the northern Sinai Peninsula and the crossing of the desert by the Assyrian army with the help of the local nomads, […]
To the British Soldier in Palestine, Irgun Poster. Time is Running Out…Advertisement sponsored by American Christian Palestine Committee in Support of Partition. The Arab War Effort, American Christian Palestine Committee, New York 1947. Click here for a description of this source. British Decision to Abandon the Mandate, Feb. 18, 1947. Reply to the Government of […]
The British Mandate of Palestine as defined by the League of Nations was a large territory covering 118,000 square kilometers. Before taking over the Mandate, the British siphoned off about 78% of the territory to form Transjordan under King Abdullah. The United Nations Partition Plan of 1947 further whittled down the Jewish State by dividing […]
Returning and Redemption Overview Anne Frank (1929-1945), Anne Frank House. Primary sources Excerpts from Anne Frank’s Diary Newspaper articles Otto Frank’s Letters Discovered, Time Magazine, Jan. 25, 2007. Images Edith Frank and Her Daughters, Margot and Anne, Frankfurt am Main, March 10, 1933 Anne Frank on the Balcony of Her Apartment in Amsterdam, May 1941 […]
October 9, 1942 Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork, the big camp in Drenthe to which they’re sending all the Jews….If it’s that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway […]
Anne Frank was born in 1929 in Frankfurt am Main in Germany. In 1933, the anti-Jewish National Socialist Party led by Hitler comes to power. Anne Frank’s Jewish parents Edith and Otto Frank perceive that there is no future in Germany for themselves and their children. They flee to the Netherlands in 1933. Anne is […]