On This Day In History
On August 10, 612 BC the Neo-Babylonian Empire wrested power from the Assyrians. The previous seat of world power, Ninevah, was destroyed. Its walls are broken by siege engines that Assyria introduced centuries before. Assyrian communities, more than two thousand years old, are obliterated1. Babylon becomes the world’s largest city (first over 200,000 inhabitants2) and the center of the earth.
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