International audienceThe name and location of the 4,000-year-old city of Babylon are known to everyone. But what about the dramatic events in its history? Do we know that on 12 October 539 BC, when the troops of Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, entered the city by surprise after a military campaign lasting barely a month, and put an end to the Neo-Babylonian Empire, a page in world history was turned for ever? The capital of an autonomous empire between the Tigris and the Euphrates was gone for a considerable time. The responsibility for this catastrophe was attributed to Cyrus' adversary, the Babylonian king Nabonidus. He had, it must be admitted, all the appearances against him despite an already long reign ...
The passage of Babylonia from the Seleucid kings to the Arsacids is well attested in the cuneiform t...
Nabuchodonosor II fut un roi charismatique et ses réalisations politiques et militaires ont transfor...
Nabuchodonosor II fut un roi charismatique et ses réalisations politiques et militaires ont transfor...
International audienceThe name and location of the 4,000-year-old city of Babylon are known to every...
International audienceThe name and location of the 4,000-year-old city of Babylon are known to every...
International audienceLe 12 octobre 539 avant notre ère, l’antique et splendide ville de Babylone to...
International audienceLe 12 octobre 539 avant notre ère, l’antique et splendide ville de Babylone to...
International audienceLe 12 octobre 539 avant notre ère, l’antique et splendide ville de Babylone to...
Au premier millénaire, Babylone est la plus grande ville de Mésopotamie, et est surtout considérée, ...
From around 1500 B.C.E. a dynasty of Kassite kings took control in Babylon and unified southern Iraq...
The Babylonian poem known as "Verse Account of Nabonidus" was meant to show how Cyrus had become in ...
The Babylonian poem known as "Verse Account of Nabonidus" was meant to show how Cyrus had become in ...
Later classical sources often described Babylon, its palaces and its temples, which astonished [– or...
The new rise of Babylon is reported and its domination of the old world is described; when two dynas...
The new rise of Babylon is reported and its domination of the old world is described; when two dynas...
The passage of Babylonia from the Seleucid kings to the Arsacids is well attested in the cuneiform t...
Nabuchodonosor II fut un roi charismatique et ses réalisations politiques et militaires ont transfor...
Nabuchodonosor II fut un roi charismatique et ses réalisations politiques et militaires ont transfor...
International audienceThe name and location of the 4,000-year-old city of Babylon are known to every...
International audienceThe name and location of the 4,000-year-old city of Babylon are known to every...
International audienceLe 12 octobre 539 avant notre ère, l’antique et splendide ville de Babylone to...
International audienceLe 12 octobre 539 avant notre ère, l’antique et splendide ville de Babylone to...
International audienceLe 12 octobre 539 avant notre ère, l’antique et splendide ville de Babylone to...
Au premier millénaire, Babylone est la plus grande ville de Mésopotamie, et est surtout considérée, ...
From around 1500 B.C.E. a dynasty of Kassite kings took control in Babylon and unified southern Iraq...
The Babylonian poem known as "Verse Account of Nabonidus" was meant to show how Cyrus had become in ...
The Babylonian poem known as "Verse Account of Nabonidus" was meant to show how Cyrus had become in ...
Later classical sources often described Babylon, its palaces and its temples, which astonished [– or...
The new rise of Babylon is reported and its domination of the old world is described; when two dynas...
The new rise of Babylon is reported and its domination of the old world is described; when two dynas...
The passage of Babylonia from the Seleucid kings to the Arsacids is well attested in the cuneiform t...
Nabuchodonosor II fut un roi charismatique et ses réalisations politiques et militaires ont transfor...
Nabuchodonosor II fut un roi charismatique et ses réalisations politiques et militaires ont transfor...