Born
685 BC
Died
627 BC
Nationality
Assyrian
Events involving Ashurbanipal (6)
668 BC
ID: 3622
Ashurbanipal becomes king - creates world's first library at Nineveh with 30,000 tablets
ID: 3622
663 BC
ID: 4641
Ashurbanipal sacks Thebes in Egypt - furthest extent of Assyrian power
ID: 4641
652 BC
ID: 4642
Shamash-shum-ukin rebels against brother Ashurbanipal - beginning of destructive Assyrian civil war
ID: 4642
648 BC
ID: 4643
Ashurbanipal defeats and kills brother Shamash-shum-ukin - Babylon destroyed again after 4-year siege
ID: 4643
646 BC
ID: 4644
Ashurbanipal destroys Susa - capital of Elam razed, ending 2000-year-old civilization
ID: 4644
627 BC
ID: 4645
Death of Ashurbanipal - succession crisis weakens empire as multiple claimants fight for throne
ID: 4645