Set, who had traditionally been the god of foreigners, thus also became associated with foreign oppressors, including the Assyrian and Persian empires.
Thus the Assyrian empire fell, Sinsharishkun being killed in the process.
The city was never completed and was finally abandoned a century later when the Assyrian empire fell.
It was the capital and a major city of the Assyrian empire.
However, there are historical references to a town in approximately the same location as Artouze during the Assyrian empire.
The Assyrian empire has at times been described as the first military power in history.
The Assyrian empire rises to become the dominant power in the ancient Near East for over two centuries.
The Assyrian empire reached its height under his rule.
But Ctesias's whole history of the Assyrian and Median empire.
The town lived on after the end of the Assyrian empire in the seventh century BC.