'So you have, encapsulated in this circular diagram, the whole of the known world in which people lived, flourished and died,' Finkel said.
The Babylonians were completely unaware of the Egyptians, Hittites, Minoans and Mycenaeans? That doesn't seem likely.
“The Babylonians were completely unaware of the Egyptians, Hittites, Minoans and Mycenaeans? That doesn’t seem likely.”
They were trading with them. Even beyond the Indus Valley. So were the Sumerians before them.
If the Jews knew about them, they didn’t know about the land of Israel?