When did babylon fall?

Babylon was no longer the principal city in the area and began to decline. As Babylon declined so did the Mesopotamian civilization. The old customs were forgotten or not performed. The old gods were abandoned. The old cities, the great cities of Sumer and Akkad, such as Babylon and Ur, Uruk and Eridu, Lagash and Isin declined to insignificance. read more

Identifying and dating Belshazzar’s Feast and the Fall of Babylon: Three items within the below references are of particular importance for establishing the correct date of the fall of Babylon: 1. The nature of Belshazzar’s feast, 2. Tammuz 16, the exact day of Belshazzar’s feast and of Babylon’s fall, and 3. read more