Nebuchadnezzar

• General Notes
  • The overthrow of Assyria enabled Babylon to regain much of her former  c ontrol of western Asia. The then contemporary centers of the      Babylonian/ Chaldeans had been Boghazkoi/Yazilikaya and      Carchemish/Jerablus along th e modern Syrian/Turkish border region.  The Return of Bel-MardukBabylon was for a lengthy time an important   ci ty in the Euphrates Valley. But more than once did its people    have  to st ruggle to survive. On at least two separate occasions it   had  to  surrende r to conquerors, who carried of its goo