Did the Babylonian priesthood flee to Pergamum?
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The timing is wrong. Although there is evidence of settlement at Pergamum around this time, it does not enter the historical record until Xenophon wrote about bringing his mercenaries through around 400 BC. According to Ancient History Encyclopedia, Pergamum was not much more than a hilltop fortress until the Hellenistic Period.
The area around Pergamum was under the control of Lydia until Persian emperor Cyrus the Great conquered it in 546 BC. After that, the area was a Persian satrapy until Alexander the Great came through.
So, when Cyrus conquered Babylon in 539 BC, Pergamum was in a recently-conquered part of his empire. I don't think the Babylonian priests would have felt any safer there.
And of course there is no mention of Pergamum in the historical record until more than a century later.
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When Cyrus conquered Babylon 539 BC he left the city intact and Babylonians were free to worship their god Marduk. So there would be no reason to flee, in some historical accounts the people seemed to like him ruling better than their Babylonian predecessors Nibonidus/Belshazzar (co-regent). In the years that followed however there were several insurrections. During Darius’ reign in 521 B.C. and 482 B.C. under Xerxes. During these the rebel king and priests were executed. A great part of the city destroyed along their temples of worship. The remaining priests fled to Pergamum which at the time was a Roman City. Like the Washington DC of Asia Minor. The dates check out and the reason for their exile makes sense from a historical stand point. Not to mention it the vehicle through which Babylonian religious/paganism is adopted by Rome, before Christianity is by Emperor Constantine.
Some of this is found in the archeological record, the Cyrus cylinder. An inscription found by Darius. I would start there. Herodotus may have also written about it. But all the above checks out according to the Biblical account as well.
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