Sack of Thebes
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title:
Sack of Thebes
text:
The sack of Thebes took place in 663 BC in the city of Thebes at the hands of the Neo-Assyrian Empire under king Ashurbanipal, then at war with the Kushite Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt under Tantamani, during the Assyrian conquest of Egypt. After a long struggle for the control of the Levant which had started in 705 BC, the Kushites had gradually lost control of Lower Egypt and, by 665 BC, their territory was reduced to Upper Egypt and Nubia. Helped by the unreliable vassals of the Assyrians in
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Assyrian plunder of Kushite Thebes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Thebes
date created:
2018-07-06T01:20:50Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T19:53:34Z
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