On their retirement Babylonia, falling into weak native hands, was a prey to a succession of inroads from the kassite mountains beyond Elam, from Elam itself, from the growing Semitic power of Asshur, Babylon's former vassal, from the Hittite Empire founded in Cappadocia about 1500 B.C., from the fresh wave of Arabian overflow which is distinguished as the Aramaean, and from yet another following it, which is usually called Chaldaean; and it was not till almost the close of the twelfth century that one of these intruding elements attained sufficient independence and security of tenure to begin to exalt Babylonia again into a mistress of foreign empire.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
The kassites poured into the Babylonian plain, and kassite kings ruled at Babylon for 576 years and a half.
"Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations"
Archibald Sayce
The kassite conquest destroyed the Babylonian empire; Canaan was lost to it for ever, and eventually became a province of Egypt.
"Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations"
Archibald Sayce