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3 days ago · Antiochus II's son Seleucus II Callinicus came to the throne around 246 BC. Seleucus II was soon dramatically defeated in the Third Syrian War against Ptolemy III of Egypt and then had to fight a civil war against his own brother Antiochus Hierax. Taking advantage of this distraction, Bactria and Parthia seceded from the empire.
4 days ago · The so-called "Tower of Babel stele", depicting Nebuchadnezzar II in the top-right and featuring a depiction of Babylon's great ziggurat (the Etemenanki) to his left. Nebuchadnezzar II succeeded Nabopolassar in 605 BC upon the death of his father.
5 days ago · At the end of the fourth century, king Seleucus, the successor of Alexander the Great and founder of the Seleucids empire, built Seleucia on the opposite bank of Opis. From now on, Opis was a mere suburb.
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4 days ago · (RNS) — When coconut farmers in India’s Tamil Nadu state stumbled across a stone covered in strange inscriptions, it’s unlikely they expected it to be a groundbreaking find in Indian Jewish history.
4 days ago · Scorpion II (Ancient Egyptian: possibly Selk or Weha; fl. c. 3170 BC) also known as King Scorpion, was a ruler during the Protodynastic Period of Upper Egypt (c. 3200–3000 BCE). Identity Name
5 days ago · The large Jewish community of Antioch—which, according to Josephus, had been given all the rights of citizenship by the Seleucid founder-king, Seleucus I Nicator (died 280 bce)—attracted a particularly large number of converts to Judaism.
4 days ago · Seleucus Nicator’s empire was defeated by Chandra Gupta Maurya. As a result of a treaty, Nicator received Para Parisade (Kabul), Aria (Herat), Arachosia (Qandhar) and Gedrosia (Balochistan) as his fiefdom; this was later passed from his descendants to Graeco-Bactrian kings who also ruled in Afghanistan and Punjab.
