The Complete History of Babylon: The City That Ruled the World Twice

Beneath the desert of modern Iraq, buried under centuries of silence, lies the city that helped invent civilization as we know it. Its laws shaped legal codes still used today. Its structures inspired stories still told today. This is the complete history of Babylon — built into greatness, destroyed, and rebuilt, more than once, across nearly two thousand years. From its founding as a small settlement on the Euphrates around 1894 BCE, through Hammurabi's legendary law code, the devastation under Sennacherib, the golden age of Nebuchadnezzar II and the Ishtar Gate, the peaceful conquest by Cyrus the Great, the death of Alexander the Great within its walls, and its eventual rediscovery by archaeologists in 1899 — this is the full arc of one of history's most important cities. 00:00 - The City That Ruled Twice 00:11 - The Founding on the Euphrates 00:21 - Hammurabi Rises to Power 00:32 - The Code of Hammurabi 00:42 - The Empire's Peak and Fall 00:53 - The Kassite Period 01:03 - Under Assyrian Shadow 01:14 - Repeated Revolts 01:24 - Sennacherib's Destruction 01:35 - Rebuilding Begins 01:45 - A New Empire: Nabopolassar 01:56 - Nebuchadnezzar Takes the Throne 02:06 - Rebuilding the City 02:17 - The Ishtar Gate 02:27 - Conquest of Jerusalem 02:38 - The Legendary Gardens 02:48 - The Great Ziggurat 02:59 - The Largest City in the World 03:09 - Nabonidus and Growing Tension 03:20 - Cyrus the Great Arrives 03:30 - Life Under Persian Rule 03:41 - Alexander Arrives 03:51 - Alexander's Final Days 04:02 - The Slow Decline 04:12 - The Rediscovery in 1899 #AncientHistory #Babylon #AncientMesopotamia