Book Lover on Instagram: "The End of an Era: The Hittite Sack of Babylon (1595 BC) This historical illustration captures a pivotal and cataclysmic event in ancient Near Eastern history: the sack of Babylon in 1595 BC. The Old Babylonian Empire, founded by Hammurabi, had been in slow decline for over a century. Its end came swiftly and unexpectedly when the Hittite king Mursili I launched a daring, long-distance raid from his capital in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey). The illustration shows the Hit