The last king of Assyria, whose name means Assyria (the creator of his heir), son of Asarhadon, the king of the new Assyrian empire, is called in the book of the Old Testament Asnavar (Ezra 10-4) in the so-called Greeks and Romans Sardanapoulos.
Beginning of governance and campaigns against Egypt:
Asarhadon conquered Egypt in 671 BC. But he arose and expelled the Assyrian governors. Asaradon prepared his forces in 669 BC. He went and died on the road near its border. But before he went, he prepared everything to take his son Ashurbanipal to power. And his mother issued a treaty of allegiance which forced the Assyrian court to accept Assyrian rule and support. In order to prevent his younger brother from the revolution later, Asarhadon installed his next son, Shamsh-Shum-Okin, as King of Babylon.
Assyrians received the rule of 668 BC and ordered a huge ceremony to install his brother as King of Babylon. The inscriptions depict the joy of the Babylonians with the new king who brought with him the statue of Mardukh, the god of Babylon, who was taken from the city when Sennacherib destroyed Assyria. New and considered his brother his favorite brother. After Ashurbanibal secured its southern borders, he led his armies towards Egypt to complete the work of his father, whose Pharaoh was not killed when he conquered Egypt. He only took his family captive to Nineveh, but the Pharaoh managed to flee to Nubia.
When Assyrians returned to Egypt, all the rebellious cities were destroyed until they reached Taiba in the south and all the rulers were killed except King Nico in the city of Sais, who remained loyal to Assyria. Then his son went to Nineveh to learn the ways of life and Assyrian rule. Then he returned to Egypt, For its rule under Assyrian authority. Ashurbanibal thought that Egypt had become a believer and returned to Assyria to deal with the problems of the Elamites. But a relative of Tiharaka in Nubia named Tatanami exploited weakness in the rule of Egypt divided between two kings who led an army and controlled every city on its way and without much effort. Then he met the Assyrian and Egyptian troops at the capital Where King Nico was killed, but King Samyatikos repelled the Nubians, and because of the Egyptians' preference for the Nubian rule over Assyrian rule, he was forced to hide. In 666 BC, the news reached Nineveh, Assyria returned to Egypt, defeated the rebels, destroyed their capital, and set up Samytekus Pharaone alone on Egypt. He left Assyrian fortresses in the strategic areas, returned to Assyria in 665 and spent the next eight years fighting the Elamites. But during that time Egypt was gradually moving away from the Assyrian fist.
But before the end of his rule, Assyria became so broad that they could not defend it well and began to disintegrate until it completely collapsed with his death.

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