Fall of the Assyrian Empire

Timeline

1. -626–-614Mesopotamia · MesopotamiaNabopolassar rose in revolt against Assyria in Babylon and later allied with the Median king Cyaxares; the allied forces gradually recovered the Mesopotamian region and advanced north toward the Assyrian heartland.
2. -612Nineveh · AssyriaThe Babylonian and Median allied forces besieged and breached Nineveh's defenses; the city was sacked and burned, the last Assyrian royal house's power disintegrated, and the imperial center collapsed.
3. -612–-609Harran · Upper MesopotamiaAssyrian remnants continued resistance at Harran and elsewhere, but around 609 BCE were finally destroyed by Egyptian reinforcements acting together with the allied forces; Assyria ceased to exist as a state entity.