May 12
940: Sixty-two-year-old Eutychius of Alexandria, the Greek who wrote Nazm
al-Jauhar, a history, of what some may consider of dubious accuracy that
began with Creation and ran through the 10th century which included
a description of the Great Re…
May 9
1457
BCE: In the 15th century BCE, Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III
and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh. The victory of
Thutmose extended the orbit of Egyptian influence into Canaan and Syria which
might help explain s…
May 7
833
BCE (2 Iyar 2928): Traditional date on which King Solomon began building the
Temple in Jerusalem.
351:
Gallus, who had been appointed “Caesar” of the East by his cousin, the Emperor
Constantius II arrived in Antioch. Antioch was the capital…
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