Maps Maps A B C D ABCDE Black Sea ANCIENT ASSYRIAN EMPIRE ANCIENT PERSIAN KINGDOM Black Sea THRACE 40° IANS SOGDIANA YTH Mt. Ararat SC Caspian 1 40° 1 1 Caspian 1 IONIA ARMENIA Sea GIMIRRAI LUD (GOMER) URARTU Sea CAPPADOCIA BACTRIA Athens Ephesus (ARARAT) Tarsus Sparta Nineveh T MEDIA ARIA i g PARTHIA Aleppo r Eu i p s IS hr Asshur Ecbatana LES at OF Rezeph es R A TH i Haran E SE R B v SAGARTIA R Carchemish Dur Sharrukin 35° A RA iver A e A HU BY r DH Crete T LO AN H Cyprus A Tadmor NIA G Gozan 2 2 Aleppo a Damascus S Nineveh H IA b M e d U Susa o i t e S Calah MEDIA r r a n e SH O r a n AN S e a Babylon Nippur H Tipsah R Persepolis C 35° Rezeph Arrapkha Cyrene A Hamath . Asshur AR Jerusalem Ecbatana ARABIA Ur Arvad uphr IA E at IND 2 T e 2 Tahpanhes h e Byblos Tadmor s 30° G r e a t R ( S e a Memphis Medi ive T MAKA terrane r i an Sea) g EGYPT ris N . Damascus River LIBYA Persian i 3 l 3 R N e Babylon R Gulf n iv Samaria a e r d r o J Jerusalem 25° Red Sea Ur N 30° ETHIOPIA Memphis (CUSH) Persian homeland under Cyrus before 550 BCE Kingdom of Medes, 550–525 BCE ARUBU Probable route of Exiles from Israel Persian EGYPT 4 Empire of Darius and Xerxes 4 3 (ARABIANS) into Assyrian captivity (722 BCE) Gulf 3 0 100 200 300 Miles Probable route of Exiles, 538–515 BCE 0 100 200 300 Miles 20° Probable route of Exiles, 457–428 BCE 0 100 200 300 Kilometers Red 0 100 200 300 Kilometers 25° 30° 35° 40° 45° 50° 55° 60° ABCDE 30° Sea35° 40° 45° 50° Map 11 Map 9 Black Sea AFP 10 ANCIENT BABYLONIAN EMPIRE Ancient PersianA Kingdom BCDE AFP 08 Second Proof THE GREEK EMPIRE 40° Ancient Assyrian Empire 08/08/08 THRACE Black Sea C Mt. Ararat Sinope 3rd Proof MACEDONIA Philippi a 1 Caspian 1 Heraclea s Pella Thessalonica Byzantium p 08/07/08 40° Calchedon EPIRUS Lysimachia i 1 Trapezus a 1 Sea Nicaea PAPHLAGONIA URARTU Aegean Dascylium PONTUS n THESSALY Ilium BITHYNIA Preria? (Troy) Ancyra S (ARARAT) AETOLIA Sea Pergamum e Delphi Mytilene GordiumGALATIA ARMENIA a Thebes Magnesia (Gordion) Corinth PHRYGIA IONIA CAPPADOCIA Carchemish Haran Athens Ephesus Sardis Ipsus ATROPATENE Olympia Melitene Gozan ACHAEA Samos Apamea Miletus Tyana H Sparta Didyma (Celaenae) Aleppo a Nineveh Halicarnassus PISIDIA b Nisibis Rezeph o MEDIA Perga Issus Carchemish r Rhodes A CI Tarsus Gaugamela R 2 I S 2 35° Phaselis CIL Soli Alexandria E . Xanthus L Rages Asshur Cydonia Knossos Antioch E Arbela Hamath Aleppo E U MEDIA(Rhagae) u C Arvad Laodicea p I Gortyno h D Ecbatana ph T Eu ra CRETE CYPRUS Salamis ra t i K Riblah e Citium te g I 2 T 2 s r h s Marathus i N e G Tadmor Emesa Dura-Europus River s G r e a t R Paphos Tripolis D ( S e a Byblos Ri Me iv Palmyra ve O dit er T Biblos r erranean i M M Sea) gr e d i t e Berytus is Cyrene r r a n e a Sidon . n Ctesiphon Damascus River S e a Tyre SYRIADamascus Gabae R N Babylon Susa Ptolemais Paneas Seleucia n Nippur Dora Babylon BABYLONIA Susa a Samaria Antioch (Cerasa) Mizpah d 3 Nippur 3 r Azotus Philadelphia o P Paraetonium Jerusalem J Alexandria Gaza Jerusalem Erech T O Sais Uruk Parsagarda 30° L Pelusium Raphia E Persepolis Ur M Bubastis A ARABIA 30° Route of Exiles from Judah into Babylonian captivity (605, 597, 586 BCE) I C Memphis Heliopolis Petra K Memphis I EGYPT Arsinoe Return of exiles under Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel (537 BCE) N P G Crocodilopolis e D r EGYPT Return of exiles under Ezra (458 BCE) and Nehemiah (445 BCE) Persian O s 3 3 M i a Gulf Hermopolis n 4 N G 4 0 100 200 300 Miles i le N Red Sea u Lycopolis R l iv f e 0 100 200 Miles Red 0 100 200 300 Kilometers r Ptolemais Nag Hammadi Sea 0 100 200 Kilometers 30° 35° 40° 45° 50° Thebes 30° 40° 50° ABCD Map 10 ABCDEMap 12 AFP 09 AFP 17 Ancient Babylonian Empire Greek Empire 2nd Proof 3rd Proof 08/08/08 08/07/08.