Assyrian conquest of Egypt | |||||||
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Part of the Conquests of the Neo-Assyrian Empire | |||||||
Map of the Neo-Assyrian Empire 824-671 BCE | |||||||
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Neo-Assyrian Empire | Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt |
The Assyrian conquest of Egypt covered a relatively short period of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 673 to 663 BCE. The conquest of Egypt not only placed a land of great cultural prestige under Assyrian rule but also brought the Neo-Assyrian Empire to its greatest extent.[1]