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During the reign of Hammuurabi’s son and successor Samsu-Iluna the political power of Babylon began to decline. Its end came finally in 1530 when the Hittite king Mursili I on a raiding expedition captured Babylon and sacked it. Mursili could not keep the town permanently, but it never regained its old status. The Cassites, a people from the Eastern mountain country, took the opportunity to extend their empire over Babylon.
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van der Waerden, B.L. (1974). Erratum To: The Assyrian Period. In: Science Awakening II. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2952-9_10
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