Note Books on Babylonian Chronology. Skip to content Skip to site index ... THE REIGN OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR AND OTHER KINGS--VALUABLE TABLETS DISCOVERED. Share full article. March 26, 1877.

Timeline: Transfers of Power. 19th-16th centuries B.C. The Amorites, including King Hammurabi, ... Babylon fell to the Persian king Cyrus the Great, and the Jews returned home from exile.

The British Museum has cracked a 4,000-year-old murder plot: Babylonian kings routinely sacrificed royal stand-ins to avoid eclipse prophecies. From the museum's collection of 130,000 Mesopotamian ...

The city was pillaged, and Jeconiah surrendered and was deported to Babylon for his trouble, along with a substantial portion of Judah's population. (The Book of Kings puts the number at 10,000 ...

Commercial correspondence from the period reveals that Babylonian cities were divided into two camps: those loyal to their king and those recognizing the Assyrian king as their supreme lord.

Archaeology & History Ancient Babylonian Tablets Are Finally Deciphered. They’re Full of Bad News. The tablets date back 4,000 years.

These ruins of the city of Babylon in Iraq date to the Neo-Babylonian Empire (626–539 B.C.). A 22-inch-high basalt stela depicting Babylon’s king Nabonidus (r. 556–539 B.C.) shows him ...

A tablet dating to the Old Babylonian period, circa 1900-1600 B.C.E., ... It was good to be the king in ancient Babylonia, unless, of course, an eclipse occurred during his reign.