The king had conquered Jerusalem in the early sixth century B.C. and exiled the Hebrews to Babylon. The Bible says that he also stole sacred objects from the Jewish temple and took them back to ...

GreekReporter.com reports that only remnants of the Ninurta Temple and its adornments were found, as it was looted and burned by invaders from Babylon and Media during the fall of the Assyrian Empire.

By Tammuz 17, 3174, the city walls were breached, and on the 9th of Av that year the Holy Temple was destroyed and the Jewish people exiled to Babylon for 70 years. Commemorated as a fast day ...