Africa

Taharqu

By Helena Castro
  • Feb 12, 662

    Taharqa died

    The next year Taharqa died and was buried in a pyramid in Nuri
  • Feb 11, 663

    Taharqa got flud from being

    But the Assyrian king, Esarhaddon, crossed the Sinai Desert and defeated Taharqa's army on the frontier. In 2 weeks he was going to Memphis. The Egyptian army crumbled under the attack of the better-disciplined Assyrian army, armed with iron weapons. Taharqa fled to Upper Egypt, leaving Esarhaddon to take control of Lower Egypt. Two years later Taharqa returned with a fresh army and managed to recover control of the Delta, but this success was short-lived, and Esar-haddon's successor
  • Feb 12, 663

    Taharqa accepted as a coregent Tanutamon

  • Feb 19, 664

    New Assyrian attack

    this time taking control of Memphis, and marching on Thebes.
    — Dies in Nubia, and is buried in a pyramid at Nuri, the largest of all Nubian pyramids.
  • Feb 17, 667

    Taharqu warred against the Assyrians in Sydon

    Esarhaddon’s campaigns against Lower Egypt in the following years.
  • Feb 19, 668

    New Assyrian king,

    Ashurbanipal defeats Taharqa, bringing the Nile Delta back under Assyrian influence.
  • Feb 19, 670

    Taharqa reestablishes Cushite control over Lower Egypt.

  • Feb 12, 671

    A fight

    By 671 B.C. Egypt and Assyria again approached a confrontation, so Taharqa prepared to fight for the continued survival of Egypt.
  • Feb 17, 671

    Taharqa defeated the Assyrians

    three years later
  • Feb 17, 671

    he defeated the Assyrians occasionly

    but three years later the Assyrian king captured and sacked Memphis, where he captured numerous members of the royal family.
  • Feb 19, 671

    New Assyrian attack

    again by Esarhaddon, in which Memphis is conquered and sacked. Taharqa is forced to flee to Thebes. Esarhaddon aids the establishment of a vassal kingdom centered to Sais.
  • Feb 19, 674

    Assyrian attack by Esarhaddon

    on Cushite territories in Egypt, but Taharqa manages to defeat them.
  • Feb 17, 677

    his first attack

    aimed to pacify Arab tribes around the Dead Sea
  • Feb 11, 688

    Taharqu Became king

    Taharqa was a Nubian pharaoh of Egypt. He was the last ruler of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty, the so-called Ethiopian Dynasty, and was driven out of Lower Egypt by the Assyrians as they began to conquer Egypt.
  • Feb 19, 690

    Succeeds Shabitqo as king

    being crowned in Memphis.
  • Feb 19, 701

    Battle of Eltekh

    Where Taharqa represents his brother, Shabitqo, the reigning king.