The king of Babylon was the ruler of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon and its kingdom, Babylonia, which existed as an independent realm from the 19th century BC to its fall in the 6th century BC. For the majority of its existence as an independent kingdom, Babylon ruled most of southern Mesopotamia, composed of the ancient regions of Sumer and Akkad. The city experienced two major periods of ascendancy, when Babylonian kings rose to dominate large parts of the Ancient Near East: the First Babylonian Empire and the Second Babylonian Empire. Babylon was ruled by Hammurabi, who created the Code of Hammurabi.
Neo-Babylonian Empire, 626–539 BC). Babylon was ruled by Hammurabi, who created the Code of Hammurabi. Many ofBabylon'skings were of foreign origin. Throughout
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Burrow finds a few traces of the Sanskrit language among the documents of the Kassite dynasty ofBabylon: “In a listof names of gods with Babylonian equivalents
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