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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 ...
The Egyptian name for Thebes was wꜣs.t, "City of the wꜣs", the sceptre of the pharaohs, a long staff with an animal's head and a forked base.From the end of the New Kingdom, Thebes was known in Egyptian as njw.t-jmn, the "City of Amun", the chief of the Theban Triad of deities whose other members were Mut and Khonsu.
He invades Egypt to try to take it back. 664 BC: Necho I, puppet Pharaoh of Egypt, is killed by invading Kushite forces under Tantamani. 663 BC: Assyrian army captures and sacks Thebes, Egypt, ending the Nubian period in Egypt. 660 BC: Traditional founding date of Japan by Emperor Jimmu on 11 February. 660 BC: First known use of the Demotic script.
Articles relating to the city of Thebes, Egypt, the main city of the fourth Upper Egyptian nome (Sceptre nome) and the capital of Egypt for long periods during the Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom eras.
El-Khokha necropolis, Thebes, Egypt El-Khokha from above. The necropolis of El-Khokha ( Arabic : الخوخه ) is located on the west bank of the river Nile at Thebes, Egypt . The necropolis is surrounds a hill and has five Old Kingdom tombs and over 50 tombs from the 18th , 19th and 20th dynasties as well as some from the First Intermediate ...
Thebes or Thebae may refer to one of the following places: Thebes, Egypt, capital of Egypt under the 11th, early 12th, 17th and early 18th Dynasties; Thebes, Greece, a city in Boeotia; Phthiotic Thebes or Thessalian Thebes, an ancient city at Nea Anchialos; Thebae (Cilicia), a town of ancient Cilicia, now in Turkey; Thebes (Ionia), in Asia Minor
Forty days after the battle, Ashurbanipal's army arrived in Thebes. Tantamani had already left the city for Kipkipi, a location that remains uncertain but might be Kom Ombo, some 200 km (120 mi) south of Thebes. [6]: 265 The city of Thebes was conquered, "smashed (as if by) a floodstorm" and heavily plundered in the Sack of Thebes. [7]
It is located in the northwestern outskirts of Luxor and southeast of the Valley of the Kings, opposite Karnak, [1] just to the southwest of the modern village of At-Tarif. It is the oldest of West Thebes' necropolises. [ 2 ]