Skip to content
Conflict Middle East

Neo-Babylonian Conquests

612 BCE – 562 BCE · 50 years

After helping destroy the Assyrian Empire, Nebuchadnezzar II expanded Babylon into the dominant Near Eastern power. He conquered Judah, destroyed Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem (586 BC), and deported the Jewish elite in the famous Babylonian Captivity.

See it on the timeline

Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Neo-Babylonian Empire (Nebuchadnezzar II)
  • Kingdom of Judah, Egypt

Key moments

Defining events in the Neo-Babylonian Conquests.

  1. 605 BC Battle of Carchemish
  2. 587-586 BC Siege of Jerusalem
  3. 586-573 BC Siege of Tyre

Elsewhere in Middle East at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

See the whole view

Landmark · Middle East

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

600 BCE – 320 BCE

Polity · Middle East

Egypt

Attested 3000 BCE – 2026 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Nile River Trade

3000 BCE – 30 BCE

Landmark · Middle East

Temple of Solomon

957 BCE – 586 BCE

Polity · Middle East

Saba

Attested 1500 BCE – 100 BCE

Trade route · Middle East

Mesopotamian Trade Network

3000 BCE – 500 BCE

Landmark · Middle East

Adulis

600 BCE – 700 CE

Polity · Middle East

Qataban

800 BCE – 150 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 612 BCE and 562 BCE.

600 BCE Hanging Gardens of Babylon 600 BCE Pompeii 600 BCE Tikal 600 BCE Taxila 600 BCE Herculaneum

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Tikal Landmark · Americas 600 BCE – still standing Assyria Polity · Europe 2024 BCE – 608 BCE Lapita Expansion (Western Polynesia) Trade route · Oceania 1500 BCE – 500 BCE Fall of the Assyrian Empire Conflict · Europe 626 BCE – 605 BCE Buddha Figure · Northern India / Nepal 563 BCE – 483 BCE Taxila Landmark · South Asia 600 BCE – 500 CE
Image credits5 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
  • Hanging Gardens of Babylonhttp://www.plinia.net/wonders/gardens/hgpix1.html · Public domain
  • Flag of EgyptDerived from Part IV Article (223) of the Constitution of The Arab Republic of Egypt. Col… · Public domain
  • Solomon's TempleFrancois Vatable · Public domain
  • AdulisDavid Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada · CC BY 2.0
  • QatabanThomas Lessman ( Contact! ) · CC BY-SA 3.0