Assyrian conquest of Egypt

Assyrian conquest of Egypt
Part of the Conquests of the Neo-Assyrian Empire

Map of the Neo-Assyrian Empire 824-671 BCE
Date673–663 BCE
Location
Result Assyrian military conquest of Egypt over a period of about 10 years. Later, continued influence under the Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt
Belligerents
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]

  1. ^ Frahm 2017, p. 187.