In historical terms, the Maccabean Revolt was the beginning of the end of the Seleucid Empire. Moral: Don't mess with the ...

The 12.15-meter-long and approximately 1.75-m -wide column is thought to have been quarried in order to decorate the Second ...

Some 50 ultra-Orthodox recruits were drafted into the Israel Defense Forces’ new Hasmonean Brigade on Sunday at the army’s Tel Hashomer induction center in Ramat Gan. The soldiers will form the ...

The Seleucid army, an imposing heir to Alexander the Great ... From every corner of their vast empire, the Seluicids conscripted mercenaries of various ethnicities, creating a military machine ...

(See also: The plots and conspiracies that ended Alexander's empire.) King Antiochus IV Epiphanes ruled the Seleucid Empire from 175 to 164 B.C. Photograph by Zev Radovan, Bible Land Pictures ...

Dozens of Israelis demand prisoner-hostage swap with Hamas, blame Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for obstructing ...