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Daniel 2 (the second chapter of the Book of Daniel) tells how Daniel related and interpreted a dream of Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon.In his night dream, the king saw a gigantic statue made of four metals, from its head of gold to its feet of mingled iron and clay; as he watched, a stone "not cut by human hands" destroyed the statue and became a mountain filling the whole world.
The Mansfield Cut Underwater Archeological District contains three Spanish shipwrecks caused by a 1554 storm off the southern Texas Gulf Coast near the Mansfield Cut. While the exact location of the site is unpublished, the three shipwrecks were found near the Padre Island National Seashore.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 04:36, 15 April 2024: 750 × 1,146 (301 KB): Srnec: The statue with a golden head and feet of clay from Nebuchadnezzar's dream - KB, National Library of the Netherlands, Netherlands.
Nebuchadnezzar subsequently besieged Tyre for 13 years. Though he did not capture the city, invulnerable on an island 800 metres from the coast which could not be taken without naval support, it eventually surrendered to him in 573 BC, [26] agreeing to be ruled by vassal kings. [27] Tyre was never captured until Alexander the Great's siege in ...
That same year, ancient bronze statues were found in a garbage dump in Tuscany, Italy. In 2013, a 1,800-year-old carved stone head possibly depicting a Roman god found in an ancient trash dump in ...
Divers uncovered a 3,000-year-old clay figurine in Italy's Lake Bolsena, revealing human fingerprints and shedding light on Iron Age rituals. Discover the story.
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The Median Wall was one of two walls built to protect Babylonia's northern border. Further evidence that Nebuchadnezzar believed the north to be the most likely point of attack for his enemies comes from that he fortified the walls of northern cities, such as Babylon, Borsippa and Kish, but left the walls of southern cities, such as Ur and Uruk ...