The Broken Scepter: Babylon, Assyria, and the Collapse of an AgeIn the closing years of the second millennium BC, a Babylonian king seized his throne by murdering his own nephew, won a stunning victory over Assyria's captured gods, and then watched fire, drought, and famine undo everything he built. The Broken Scepter tells the story of Marduk-nādin-aḫḫē, the sixth king of Babylon's Second Dynasty of Isin, whose eighteen-year reign carried his kingdom from the wrec...