Ancient Babylon: Rise and Fall | The Final History

This video covers Hammurabi's law code and the Old Babylonian kingdom, the Hittite raid that ended it, four centuries of Kassite rule, Babylon's fraught relationship with Assyria — including a king who flooded the city and his own son who rebuilt it — the rise of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, Nebuchadnezzar's Ishtar Gate and the disputed Hanging Gardens, the strange reign of Nabonidus, and why Babylon's own priesthood may have welcomed Persian conquest. We also explain what let Babylon keep coming back when so many other ancient capitals, like Nineveh, never did. CHAPTERS 00:00 – A City That Refused to Disappear 01:30 – Hammurabi and the First Babylonian Empire 04:00 – The Hittite Raid and Centuries of Foreign Rule 06:30 – Marduk and the Power of Babylon's Temple 09:00 – Assyria: Destruction, Then Restoration 11:30 – The Rise of the Neo-Babylonian Empire 13:30 – Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon 16:30 – The Mystery of Nabonidus 19:00 – Why the Gates Opened for Cyrus 21:00 – Alexander, Decline, and Abandonment 23:00 – Why Babylon Kept Coming Back Subscribe for more deep dives into the rise and fall of history's greatest empires — new videos on The Final History roughly every [frequency]. #Babylon #Mesopotamia #History #AncientHistory #Hammurabi #TheFinalHistory