arakhtu

Updated: June 6, 2025

In B.C. 689 Babylon was taken by storm, and a savage vengeance wreaked upon it. The sacred city of western Asia was levelled with the dust, the temple of Bel himself was not spared, and the Arakhtu canal which flowed past it was choked with ruins.

A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce - Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations