Originally built in the 2nd century BCE, it was destroyed by an earthquake in the 3rd century CE and subsequently rebuilt.

Emotions of despair is overwhelmingly present in the Jewish history but it is always followed by declaration of perseverance ...

How many of us knew that the city of Gaza, the war-torn Palestinian enclave, has a Greek past that defined the history of the ...

During the Hellenistic era, an obscure city in western Asia Minor (modern Turkey) became one of the leading states of the 3rd ...

Hanukkah is a Jewish festival commemorating the recovery of Jerusalem and subsequent rededication of the Second Temple at the beginning of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire in the 2nd ...

In 164 BCE, Judah Maccabee managed to defeat the local forces of the Seleucid Empire led by Antiochus IV and purified the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. For the following decades, the region would be ...