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Events relating to assyria
The god Ashur is worshipped at a shrine on the Tigris known by his name (the origin of the word Assyria)
Shamshi-Adad I conquers Ashur and the surrounding areas, beginning Assyria's first brief period as a regional power
Zimri-Lim builds himself a spectacular palace with some 300 rooms in his capital city of Mari in northern Mesopotamia
Shamshi-Adad I conquers the rich and ancient kingdom of Mari, and puts on the throne his son Yasmah-Adad
Hammurabi, in the process of winning control over the whole of Mesopotamia, conquers the northern territories of Mari and Ashur
Hammurabi destroys Mari (concealing for posterity an extraordinary cuneiform archive not discovered until 1933)
More than 25,000 cuneiform tablets (unearthed since 1933 at Mari) provide a detailed account of Assyria in the late 18th century BC
Ashur, or Assyria, sinks into almost a millennium of fluctuating but largely diminished fortunes
Assyria, during the reign of Ashurnasirpal II, once again recovers an extensive empire
Ashurnasirpal II creates a spectacular new capital at Nimrud (and claims to have had 69,574 guests at his palace-warming party)
An annual event in Assyria is the departure of the army in spring for an expedition of ruthless and brutal conquest
Ashburbanipal II extracts tribute from the cities of Phoenicia, beginning a period of Assyrian domination of the region
The Assyrian army makes good use of the new technology by which iron can be hardened into steel suitable for weapons
The Assyrians overwhelm the north of Israel and the ten northern tribes vanish from history - the majority of them probably dispersed or sold into slavery
The first known lock and key is fitted in the new palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad, in Assyria
Sennacherib moves the Assyrian capital to a new site at Nineveh
The Assyrian king, Sennacherib, destroys with great brutality the city of Babylon
The Egyptian city of Memphis falls to an Assyrian army, soon to be followed by Thebes
Ashurbanipal commissions a great library of cuneiform clay tablets at Nineveh
Ashurbanipal commissions a magnificent relief of a lion hunt for his new palace at Nineveh
British archaeologist Henry Layard, in his first month of digging in Iraq, discovers the Assyrian city of Nimrud
Hormuzd Rassam discovers the magnficent lion-hunt reliefs in the palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh