In 539 BC Cyrus the Great of Persia conquered Babylon. The Biblerecords in the Book of Daniel about the “Handwriting on the Wall”where Belshazzar who had been ruling in Babylon on behalf of hisfather Nabonidus, saw handwriting on his palace wall during afeast, which Daniel the Hebrew interpreted as the end of theBabylonian Empire.

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