Mari is destroyed for the third and…

1761 BCE to 1750 BCE

Mari is destroyed for the third and final time around 1757 BCE by Hammurabi.

This is known from the numerous state archives tablets that recount Hammurabi turning on his old ally Zimrilim, and defeating him in battle.

At this time Zimrilim disappears from historical view, and is presumed to have been killed.

After this destruction, there will be scattered habitations by Assyrians and Babylonians, but the city will remain a village until the arrival of the Greeks, and vanish from history thereafter.

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Mari > Tell Hariri Syria View →

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Zimrilim View →

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Mesopotamia View → Mari, City-State of View → Amorites View → Babylonian Empire View →

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Subboreal Period View → Middle Bronze Age II B (Near and Middle East) View →

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