Only scanty information exists about his immediate family: hisfather, Sin-muballit; his sister, Iltani; and his firstborn son andsuccessor, Samsuiluna, are known by name. Under the rules ofHammurabi’s successors, the Babylonian Empire was weakened bymilitary pressure from the Hittites, who sacked Babylon around 1531BC that means he was not conqered in his time but his sucesor were.Hammurabi died out of natural causes. He was sickly towards the endof his reign. In died when he was 45 years old in 1750 BC. He was aking in Babylon.

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