babylon

Tukulti-Ninurta I defeated Kashtiliash IV, the Kassite king of Babylonia, and captured the rival city of Babylon to ensure full Assyrian supremacy over Mesopotamia. He set himself up as king of Babylon. After a Babylonian revolt, he raided and plundered the temples in Babylon, regarded as an act...

Hittite King Mursili I invaded Yamhad in Northern Syria to avenge his grandfather Hattusili I's defeat and defeat it's hands. He captured it's capital Aleppo ending it. Next he invaded Mesopotamia and marched on Babylon sacking it which ended the Old Babylonian Empire of Hammurabi's dynasty. But...

Hello. I'm an Ancient History student and this is my first thread. I still don't understand very well how alternatehistory.com works, but I'll try my best to make my story look decent. I would also like to apologize for my terrible English, so if at some point you don't understand something...

If this were to have happened then Babylonia would need to avoid being conquered by other powers such as the persian, Arabian and Roman Empires. This can be done by Babylonia being an asset either as a vassal or an independent ally of the powerful states in the Middle East during the...

In October 539 BC, when Cyrus the Great conquered the Neo-Babylonian empire, he faced surprisingly little resistance, for which various explanations have been found, suggesting the unpopularity the favoritism the previous Babylonian monarch Nabonidus had for the god Sin over Babylon's...

The Qedarites were an Arab tribe or confederation active from the 9th-4th centuries BC, present just south of Mesopotamia, and parts of Sina, mentioned in both the bible, Assyrian sources, and Persian, Greek, and Roman sources. The Arabs were first attested in the written record when Gindibu...

While searching Wikipedia today, I learned about Nidin-Bel, a Babylonian rebel who possibly held control of some of the Mesopotamian from late 336-early 335 BC. In concurrence with the instability created by the death of Artaxerxes IV, rebellions occurred throughout the empire, and men like...

The Sealand dynasty was a relatively weak dynasty of Akkadian-speaking kings who broke off from Amorite-ruled Babylon sometime around 1732 BC. The Amorite dynasty in Babylon was beginning to enter decline after falling from the heights of the glory days of Hammurabi, and there is some evidence...

Babylon was initially a minor settlement and administrative center that became the center of a minor dynasty with the Amorite chieftain Sumu-abum, who became the first king of the city. It was initially overshadowed by much larger powers such as Kazallu, Isin, Larsa, and Elam, before rising to...

Otl, despite being the homeland of early civilization as we recognize it, Mesopotamia was long dominated by foreign empires. This isn't to say Mesopotamia was without power, but much of its realms were fairly limited, mostly to what are now iraq and Syria, with bits poking into turkey or iran...

What if the ancient Dynasty of the Sealand, had taken over the old Babylonian Empire from Amorites, and expanded it to great heights, the Dynasty lasting for centuries in Mesopotamia and the Middle East? From sands of Egypt to deserts of Persia, Sealand Dynasty rules all

The Jewish Exilarchs were nominal leaders of the Jewish talmudic community (or parts of it, at least) who claimed descent from David and established themselves in the highly urbanized region of Mesopotamia under the patronage of the Persian kings. The office was a popular leadership role for...

What if the Babylonian King Hammurabi (1810-1750 BCE) had never risen to prominence as a regional warlord in Mesopotamia? I can see some immediate consequences being the survival, however short or long, of the small empires of Larsa and Mari, alongside a stronger hegemony for Elam and perhaps an...

What if instead of being exiled to Babylon,instead the portion of the Jewish population that would have been exiled is instead massacred by the Babylonians for noncompliance? How would this affect the development of the Jewish religion?

This thread, is a minor tl, which could develop into a full-time creation, exploring the geopolitical schematics in a world wherein the Assyrian empire defeats the Medo-Babylonian alliance and contends itself with the changing situation in the Middle East. This is also a thought experiment...

Your challenge if you choose to accept it, is with a POD in 625, during the reign of Sinsharikun (627-614 BCE), for the Assyrian Empire, already over extended and damaged, to fight off all of its foes and restore itself during the reign of Sinsharikun. This is a very difficult task, I realize...

Other than Rome, are there any other cities that could rise from a city-state, to a large and expansive realm named after that city, all the while transitioning from a monarchy to a republic to an empire? The early period of the city should be full of mythologized drama and dominated by other...

The Battle of Carchemish (once mentioned in the bible) was a crucial battle between the forces of Necho III, pharaoh of Egypt, and his neo-assyrian allies against the forces of Nebuchadnezzar II of the neo-babylonian empire. Nebuchadnezzar II ended up crushing Necho's forces and attaining...

As I understand it, wrought iron weapons are typically less hard and more ductile than bronze weapons, and thus don't hold an edge as well; their advantage in the ancient world was because iron ore was much more common in the earth than copper and tin, and this came to a head with the collapse...

According to the Qur’an, before the days of Muhammad there was another prophet by the name of Hud. This man preached monotheism to the early Arab tribes, urging them to abandon their wicked, hedonistic, polytheist ways or face the wrath of the One True God. The tribes ignored the prophet and so...