Sack of Babylon by Hittite King Mursili I
1595 BCE
Hittite raid from Anatolia bringing down the First Babylonian Dynasty and ushering in Kassite rule.
Sources and References
Chroniques Babyloniennes (BM 26472) & Archives diplomatiques de Bogazköy
Consulter l'archive officielle ↗Trevor Bryce, The Kingdom of the Hittites (Oxford Univ. Press)
Semantic cluster
Mesopotamia clusterSumer, Akkad, Babylon, Assyria: writing, law codes, Fertile Crescent empires.
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