Ashurbanipal

An Assyrian governor named Kandalanu was then placed on the throne of Babylon to rule on behalf of Ashurbanipal.

Ashurbanipal's brutal campaign against Elam in 647 BC is recorded in this relief.

Ashurbanipal was at the height of his glory.

Georges Roux - Ancient Iraq Esarhaddon's successor Ashurbanipal sent a general with a small army which again defeated and ejected Taharqa from Egypt. Taharqa died in Nubia two years later.

He raised a major revolt against his brother, Ashurbanipal.

However, after the death of Ashurbanipal (and Kandalanu) in 627 BC, the Neo Assyrian Empire descended into a series of bitter internal dynastic civil wars which were to be the cause of its downfall.

However, his successor Ashurbanipal sent a large army into southern Egypt and routed Tantamani, ending all hopes of a revival of the Nubian Empire.

In 647 BCE, Neo-Assyrian king Ashurbanipal leveled the city during a war in which the people of Susa participated on the other side.

K.B. Matveev, Al-Ashuriyyun wal Mas'ala Al-Ashuriyya - As for what was remaining of the Assyrian army, they were led by the brother of the King Ashurbanipal from the city of Ashur towards Haran, located Northwest of the city of Nineveh.

Neo-Assyrians main Ashurbanipal 's brutal campaign against Susa in 647 BCE is recorded in this relief.