Bible History Online - Nebuchadnezzar Inscription This clay tablet reads, "In the thirty-seventh year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of the country of Babylon, he went to Egypt [Misr] to make war. Amasis, king of Egypt, collected [his army], and marched and spread abroad.". In the ruins of ancient Babylon most of the clay inscriptions are about Nebuchadnezzar.