Page "Babylonia" Paragraph 14

The fall of Babylon is taken as a fixed point in the discussion of the chronology of the ancient Near East.

Suggestions for its precise date vary by as much as 150 years, corresponding to the uncertainty regarding the length of the " Dark Age " of the ensuing Bronze Age collapse, resulting in the shift of the entire Bronze Age chronology of Mesopotamia with regard to the chronology of Ancient Egypt.

Possible dates for the sack of Babylon are: