High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The short chronology is one chronology of the Near Eastern Bronze and Early Iron Age, which fixes the reign of Hammurabi to 1728 BC 1686 BC and the sack of Babylon to 1531 BC. The absolute 2nd millennium BC dates resulting from this decision currently have a majority support in academia, although the middle chronology (reign of Hammurabi 1792 BC 1750 BC) is commonly encountered in older literature.