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Official history asserts that the Jewish people have existed continuously from the time of Abraham to the present day, thanks ...

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This Babylonian amulet dating to the seventh or sixth century b.c. shows a mythological ... kings of Egypt and the leaders of the Seleucid Empire based in today’s Iraq. Archaeologist Yonatan ...