If you’ve been hearing about the new Odyssey remake on the big screen, you know all about the mythical monsters—but the real-world history happening at the exact same time is even wilder!
Let’s travel back to the late 8th century BCE (around 700ish BC):
⛵ In Greece, a poet named Homer is putting the finishing touches on The Odyssey, capturing the oral traditions of Odysseus, the Trojan Horse, and terrifying sirens. The Greek alphabet is freshly adopted, and Western literature is being born.
👑 At the exact same moment in history, across the Mediterranean, King Hezekiah is reigning in Jerusalem. As the Assyrian army marches toward his gates, Hezekiah isn’t writing epics—he’s dealing with a real-world crisis. He commands his engineers to carve a massive, 1,749-foot water tunnel straight through solid rock to secure the city’s survival (2 Chronicles 32:30). You can still walk through this tunnel in Jerusalem today!
History isn’t a textbook, it’s a massive crossover episode!
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