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Ashurbanipal's invasion of Egypt
Ashurbanipal's invasion of Egypt was an Assyrian campaign in 667 BC in which king Ashurbanipal defeated the Kushite pharaoh Taharqa near Memphis and retook the city.
Assyrian conquest of Egypt
The Assyrian conquest of Egypt, also known as Esarhaddon's Egyptian campaigns, was a series of Neo-Assyrian campaigns against Kushite-ruled Egypt, 671-663 BCE, reaching from the sack of Memphis to the sack of Thebes.
Battle of Bitter Lakes
The Battle of Bitter Lakes was an engagement on the shore of Kemwer, the Bitter Lakes, fought by the Egyptian pharaoh Shoshenq I against an unnamed enemy.
Battle of Eltekeh
The Battle of Eltekeh (Akkadian Altaqu) was an open-field battle fought in 701 BC at Eltekeh in Philistia between Sennacherib of Assyria and an Egyptian-Kushite relief force.
Battle of Pelusium (674 BC)
The Battle of Pelusium (674 BC) was the first recorded Assyrian attempt to invade Egypt, ending in defeat of Esarhaddon's army by the Kushite pharaoh Taharqa.
Building works of Taharqa at Kawa and Gebel Barkal
The building works of Taharqa at Kawa and Gebel Barkal are temples built by the Kushite pharaoh Taharqa (r. 690–664 BC) at two great Amun sanctuaries in Nubia.
Campaign of Siamun to Philistia
A disputed Egyptian military campaign to Philistia or Gezer attributed to Siamun, a 21st Dynasty pharaoh of Tanis, usually dated within 990–950 BC and argued over because of 1 Kings 9:16.
Campaign of Tefnakht against the Delta and Middle Egypt
Tefnakht's campaign against the Delta and Middle Egypt was the late eighth-century BC expansion of Tefnakht of Sais, which besieged Herakleopolis and provoked Piye's Nubian invasion.
Esarhaddon's second campaign against Egypt
Esarhaddon's second campaign against Egypt was the Neo-Assyrian invasion of 671 BC that defeated the Kushite pharaoh Taharqa, captured Memphis, and made Esarhaddon the first Mesopotamian ruler titled king of Egypt.
Installation of Amenirdis I as God's Wife of Amun
The installation of Amenirdis I as God's Wife was the Kushite adoption of princess Amenirdis I into the high priesthood of Amun at Thebes in the 8th century BC.
Nubian campaign of Piankh
The Nubian campaign of Piankh was an expedition into Nubia led by Piankh, High Priest of Amun at Thebes, in year 10 of the Whm Mswt of Ramesses XI.
Osorkon II's Sed festival at Bubastis
Osorkon II's Sed festival at Bubastis was the royal jubilee celebrated by pharaoh Osorkon II at the Temple of Bastet, recorded on a granite gateway built for the occasion.
Piankh's Nubian campaign
Piankh's Nubian campaign was a military expedition led into Nubia around 1070 BCE by Piankh, High Priest of Amun and Viceroy of Kush, against the former viceroy Pinehesy.
Revolt of Pedubast I against Takelot II
The revolt of Pedubast I against Takelot II was a civil war at Thebes in ancient Egypt, beginning in Takelot II's regnal year 11 when Pedubast proclaimed himself king.
Revolt of the Delta vassals against Assyria
The Revolt of the Delta vassals against Assyria was a conspiracy of native Delta chiefs against Assyrian rule, plotted with Taharqa and crushed by Ashurbanipal after 667 BC.
Sack of Thebes (663 BC)
The sack of Thebes in 663 BC, recalled in Nahum as the fall of No-Amon, was the plundering of Egypt's religious capital by Ashurbanipal of Assyria, ending Kushite rule.
Settlement of the Meshwesh in Egypt
The settlement of the Meshwesh in Egypt was the settling of Libyan tribes in the western Delta from the 13th century BC, eventually producing the Libyan dynasties.
Shabaka's conquest of Egypt
Shabaka's conquest of Egypt, around 712 BC, was Shabaka of Kush's defeat of the Saite king Bakenranef, ending the Twenty-Fourth Dynasty and establishing Kushite rule.
Tantamani's campaign into Egypt
Tantamani's campaign into Egypt was a 664 BC military expedition in which the Kushite king Tanutamani marched north from Nubia to Memphis, killing Necho I of Sais.
Tefnakht's coalition against Piye
Tefnakht's coalition against Piye was an alliance of Delta rulers under Tefnakht of Sais, defeated when the Kushite king Piye campaigned down the Nile around 733 BC.
Unification of Egypt by Psamtik I
The unification of Egypt by Psamtik I ended the Third Intermediate Period, as the Saite king of Sais defeated rival Delta rulers and secured Thebes by 656 BC.
War of the High Priest of Amun against the viceroy of Kush
A conflict at Thebes in the last years of Ramesses XI, around 1089 BCE, when Panehsy, viceroy of Kush, moved against Amenhotep, High Priest of Amun.