Who conquered the Babylon in 538 BC?
After taking Babylon, Cyrus the Great proclaimed himself “king of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad, king of the four corners of the world” in the famous Cyrus Cylinder, an inscription deposited in the foundations of the Esagila temple dedicated to the chief Babylonian god, Marduk. Who conquered Babylon in 529 BC? In 529 BC,…