Bible Explorer · Event · 539 BC
During a drunken feast in Babylon using sacred Jerusalem temple vessels, a mysterious hand wrote "MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN" on the wall, interpreted by Daniel hours before Babylon fell to the Medes and Persians.
Date: 539 BC · Note: The night of the fall of Babylon (16 Tishri 539 BC).
Daniel 5:1-30