Elamite sack of Babylon
1,158 BCE* · Event
Shutruk-Nakhunte of Elam plunders Babylon and carries the Code of Hammurabi stele to Susa, where it is found in 1901; the Kassite dynasty soon ends.
On these timelines: Mesopotamia & the Ancient Near East, Persia and Iran, The Bronze Age, Master
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