Event Ashurbanipal's first invasion

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Was a military campaign of Assyrian King Ashurbanipal that conquered southern Egypt (the northern part of the Kingdom was already under Assyrian control).

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  • January 667 BC: Esarhaddon set about returning to Egypt to once more eject Taharqa from the south; however, he fell ill and died in the northern Assyrian city of Harran before departing. His successor Ashurbanipal sent a general with a small, well-trained army corps which easily defeated and ejected Taharqa from Egypt once and for all.