This 8th-century miniature, by the Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana, depicts the Bible story of Babylonian King Nebuchadrezzar eating grass as divine punishment. Photograph by Granger Collection ...

Holy scripture describes the Ark of the Covenant ... were preserved before the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC. With the Babylonians surrounding Jerusalem, Baruch fled to the ...

before it disappeared during the Babylonian sack of Jerusalem in 586 BC. No person alive today has ever laid eyes on it, and the Bible states that only the high priest of the temple of Jerusalem ...