Babylonians Conquered

In 539 BC, Cyrus the Great rode through the Gate of Ishtar to conquer the Babylonian people.

Thousands of Persian soldiers followed Cyrus the Great through the Ishtar Gate.

The Babylonians are defeated by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid Empire (539 BC), and Mesopotamia would later become subject to subsequent conquests by Alexander the Great (331 BC), the Romans under Trajan, the Parthian empire in the 3rd century BC, and the Sassanid dynasty in the 3rd through 7th centuries AD.