Parthian Conquest of Mesopotamia and Decline of Babylon
141 BCE
Parthian King Mithridates I captures Babylon, shifting prominence to Ctesiphon and ending cuneiform writing.
Sources and References
Journaux astronomiques babyloniens de l'époque parthe (British Museum)
Consulter l'archive officielle ↗Strabon, Géographie (Livre XVI, 1)
Semantic cluster
Mesopotamia clusterSumer, Akkad, Babylon, Assyria: writing, law codes, Fertile Crescent empires.
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