On March 21, 630, Emperor Heraclius entered Jerusalem not as a conqueror in triumph, but as a penitent bearing a burden—both literal and symbolic—that had come to define a generation of war. In his hands, according to Christian tradition, was the True Cross, the…
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On July 29, 587 BC, after months of siege, the Neo-Babylonian Empire broke through the walls of Jerusalem and destroyed the First Temple—marking the violent end of the Kingdom of Judah and the beginning of the Babylonian Exile. The conquest, led by King Nebuchadnezzar…
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