Siege of Babylon

Siege of Babylon
	; 20th-century illustration of Sennacherib's destruction of Babylon
Date	689 BC
Location	Babylon
Result	Assyrian victory
Belligerents
Babylonians	Assyrians
Commanders and leaders
Mushezib-Marduk	Sennacherib

The siege of Babylon in 689 BC took place after Assyrian king Sennacherib's victory over the Elamites at the Battle of River Diyala.^[1] Although the Assyrians had suffered heavy casualties at the river, they had beaten the Elamites such that the Babylonians now stood alone. Sennacherib then successfully besieged Babylon for up to fifteen months and destroyed it.^[2]^[3]

^ Brinkman, J. A. (1973). "Sennacherib's Babylonian Problem: An Interpretation". Journal of Cuneiform Studies. 25 (2): 89–95. doi:10.2307/1359421. ISSN 0022-0256.
^ Gerardi, Pamela (1986). "Declaring War in Mesopotamia". Archiv für Orientforschung. 33: 30–38. ISSN 0066-6440.
^ Van De Mieroop, Marc (2003). "Revenge, Assyrian Style". Past & Present (179): 3–23. ISSN 0031-2746.

[1] Brinkman, J. A. (1973). "Sennacherib's Babylonian Problem: An Interpretation". Journal of Cuneiform Studies. 25 (2): 89–95. doi:10.2307/1359421. ISSN 0022-0256.

[2] Gerardi, Pamela (1986). "Declaring War in Mesopotamia". Archiv für Orientforschung. 33: 30–38. ISSN 0066-6440.

[3] Van De Mieroop, Marc (2003). "Revenge, Assyrian Style". Past & Present (179): 3–23. ISSN 0031-2746.

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