539 BCE

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Fall of Babylon to Cyrus the Great

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The fall of Babylon occurred in 539 BCE, when the Persian Empire conquered the Neo-Babylonian Empire. The success of the Persian campaign, led by Cyrus the Great, brought an end to the reign of the last native dynasty of Mesopotamia and gave the Persians control over the rest of the Fertile Crescent. Nabonidus, the final Babylonian king and son of the Assyrian priestess Adad-guppi, had ascended to the throne by overthrowing his predecessor Labashi-Marduk in 556.

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Apocalypse figurée des ducs de Savoie - Escorial E Vit.5 - Fall of BabylonmedievalPublic domainWikimedia Commons
The Fall of BabylonPhilips GalleCC0The Met
Panel with striding lionUnknownCC0The Met
The vision of Babylon: the fall of BabylonKB, National Library of the NetherlandsPublic domainEuropeana
The fall of Babylon; Cyrus the Great defeating the Chaldean army. Mezzotint by J. Martin, 1831, after himself, 1819.Wellcome CollectionCC BY 4.0Europeana
Neues Testament (Luther-Bibel): Der Untergang Babylons (Offenbarung des Johannes 14, 1-8)The Albertina MuseumPublic domainEuropeana

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