by hadassah | Mar 1, 2017 | Early Modern Period, Introduction to Cultural Trends, Persian Period
Minhagim, Venice, 1593, BM700.I818 1593, Fol. 73v – Purim. What do you want to know? Ask our AI widget and get answers from this website Create Account Contact...
by hadassah | Dec 31, 2016 | Persian Period
The Galilee Boat—2,000-Year-Old Hull Recovered Intact, Shelley Wachsmann, BAR 14:05, Sep/Oct 1988 A severe drought gripped Israel in 1985 and 1986. The winter rains barely came. Water was pumped from the Sea of Galilee to irrigate parched fields throughout the...
by hadassah | Jan 28, 2009 | Persian Period
Persian Period, 537-332 BCE Highlights- Cyrus Cylinder, c. 535 BCE The Passover Papyrus from Elephantine, 419 BCE The Elephantine Temple, 407 BCE Yehud Coin 1, 4th century BCE The exile in Babylonia ended even more swiftly than it began. In 539 B.C.E. Cyrus the...
by hadassah | Jan 26, 2009 | Persian Period
The Lighthouse of Alexandria, 285-247 BCE One of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the lighthouse was built at the port of Alexandria, Egypt. Completed in about 279 B.C. by the second Ptolemy, the lighthouse soared to a height of 300 to 500 feet, the...
by hadassah | Jan 26, 2009 | Persian Period
Big City, Few People, David Ussishkin, Biblical Archaeology Review (31:4), Jul/Aug 2005. Jerusalem in the Persian Period I would like to take a somewhat radical, maximalist view of the size of Jerusalem when the Israelites (or, more precisely, the Judahites)...
by hadassah | Jan 26, 2009 | Persian Period
Maagan Michael Ship, 4th-5th century BCE Maagan Michael Ship In 1985 a kibbutznik named Ami Eshel of Kibbutz Ma‘agan Mikhael was diving not far from the beach of the kibbutz, 20 miles south of Haifa, when he noticed an unusual pile of rocks with a beam of...
