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World-changing673 BCE – 663 BCE · 10 years

Assyrian conquest of Egypt

Memphis · Thebes · Sile

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Esarhaddon's and Ashurbanipal's campaigns ending Kushite rule in Egypt, climaxing in the sack of Thebes (663 BC).

Belligerents3

  • Neo-Assyrian Empire
  • Kingdom of Kush
  • 25th Dynasty Egypt

ON THE MAPNeo-Assyrian EmpireKingdom of Kush

Sources

  1. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Assyrian conquest of Egypt (673 BCE – 663 BCE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/assyrian-conquest-of-egypt · Sources & methodology