Eshnunna had eventually been drawn within the…

Eshnunna had eventually been drawn within the sphere of Third Dynasty of Ur, before achieving a short-lived political prominence—after Ur's decline and fall—within the first two centuries of the second millennium BCE.

At this time, Eshnunna again represents the focus of an independent polity of significant size and influence.

Eshnunna is ultimately conquered in 1759 by Hammurabi, Amorite ruler of Babylon, and absorbed within the Old Babylonian Empire (sometimes called the First Babylonian Dynasty).

There is evidence that the entire town is ravaged by a terrible flood in about 1755, just four years after its supposed capture.