Starting out as a modest city-state in the late third millennium BCE, Babylon rose to prominence under the rule of King Hammurabi (c. 1792–1750 BCE), whose brutal approach to justice and legal ...

In 1750 BC, King Hammurabi died at about 60 years old, and while his ancestors ruled for another 155 years, his death marked the slow decline of the Babylon Empire. 'The origins of some of the ...

The Amorites, including King Hammurabi, reign. The Hittites later conquer the city. 16th-11th centuries B.C. The Kassites conquer Babylon. Later, Chaldeans and Aramaeans struggle to control the city.