It is written........it is a done deal

MENE, MENE, TEKEL and PARSIN

MENE=God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end

TEKEL=you have been weighed in the balance and found wanting

PARSIN=your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians

Wow,  God sure said a lot in three short words.  Maybe there is a lesson here.

The rest of the story, as Paul Harvey would say,  is wrapped up in two short verses, Daniel 5:30,31
 "That very night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain. And Darius the Mede received the kingdom being about sixty two years old."

There you have it. The end of  the Babylon empire.

However, the story of Daniel is not yet over. If you can not wait,  read chapter 6