Page 427 - Four Thousand Years Ago by Geoffrey Bibby

But mainly they were content to live on their estates, or to

visit the estates of their comrades in arms, reliving across the
winecups the battles of their youth and middle age, the defensive
wars against Elam and Babylon, the desert marches and the
mountain assaults, the halcyon days on the Phoenician coast, and,

always, the storming of Babylon, the crowning achievement of a
life in arms.

In this chapter there is little or no fiction or guesswork. The
Annals of Tiglathpileser give as detailed an account as one could
wish of the later period, and N ebuchadnezzar of Babylon has also

left his own account of the events of his reign. Fie is not, be it
said, the well-known Biblical Nebuchadnezzar (ZI), who ruled in
Babylon some five hundred years later (604-562 b.c.).