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The next year Taharqa died and was buried in a pyramid in Nuri
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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
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this time taking control of Memphis, and marching on Thebes.
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Esarhaddon’s campaigns against Lower Egypt in the following years.
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Ashurbanipal defeats Taharqa, bringing the Nile Delta back under Assyrian influence.
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By 671 B.C. Egypt and Assyria again approached a confrontation, so Taharqa prepared to fight for the continued survival of Egypt.
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three years later
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but three years later the Assyrian king captured and sacked Memphis, where he captured numerous members of the royal family.
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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.
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on Cushite territories in Egypt, but Taharqa manages to defeat them.
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aimed to pacify Arab tribes around the Dead Sea
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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.
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being crowned in Memphis.
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Where Taharqa represents his brother, Shabitqo, the reigning king.