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ART OF VANISHED CIVILIZATIONS

Time Table of the ancient kingdom of Urartu and its relation to the Time Table of Assyria, Elam and Babylonia

Photo: Map of Ancient Assyria.

In 6,000 B.C., Armenia as a nation was first settled by the Thracian-Phrygian tribes that crossed in Anatolia  From the Balkans.  In 5,000 B.C,  Nineveh in Ashur (Assyria) is inhabited. In 4.750 B.C., the first Assyrian temple is erected. In 4,000 B.C., Armenia began mining metals. Around 3,000 B.C., the Hayasa-Azzi tribes first inhabit Urartu. In 2,500 B.C., two Assyrian cities Arbel and Nineveh prosper and their trade flourishes. They become very influential cities in the Middle East. In 1760 B.C., Hammurabi king of Babylonia conquers Assyria  and ends the first Assyrian empire. In 1,500 B.C., Mitanni rules Assyria. In 1,363, B.C., Ashur-Uballit establishes  the Assyrian Empire. In 1,260 B.C., the Assyrians scribes and inscriptions mention Urartu  for the first time.  In 1,240 B.C., Babylon is ravaged by the Assyrians. Around 1,200 B.C., the Assyrians resist incursions by the Urarturians and the Mushki. Between:  1,114 to 1,076 B.C. mark the reign of Tiglath-Pileser the first over Assyria.  In 1,155 B.C., Elam and Assyria attack Babylonia and put an end to the Kassite rule. Around 1,000 B.C., the Phyrgians and the Thracians immigrate to Urartu. Around 1,000 B.C., the Urarturians conquer and overrun the majority of the lands of the mighty empire  of Assyria. Around 934-935 B.C., Assyria regains and captures the lands lost to the Urarturians. Around 900 B.C., The Urarturians adopt the Assyrian cuneiform script. In 860 B.C., Aramu becomes the first king of Urartu. Around 859 B.C., the Assyrians regain their lands from the hands of the Urarturians. Around 856 B.C., the Assyrian king Shalmeneser the third defeats Aramu, the first king of Urartu. Around 820 B.C., Van becomes the capital of Urartu during the reign of Sardur the first. Around 800 B.C., under the monarch Menva, the Kingdom of Urartu flourishes, prospers and expands. In 782 B.C., at Erebuni, King Argishti the first erects the first Armenian royal capital. In 760 B.C., king Sarduri the second annexes northern Syria. Around 743 B.C., Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser the third defeats the Urarturians and gains northern Syria. In 738 B.C., Assyria attacks Phoenicia and captures Byblos and Sidon. The year 735 B.C. marks the beginning of the Assyrian incursions in the kingdom of Urartu. In 734 B.C., king Tiglath-Pileser the third of Assyria captures Tyre in Phoenicia. In 721 B.C., king Sargon the second of Assyria attacks and captures Samaria, the capital of Israel and deports thousands of Israelites who become the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. In 714 B.C., the Uraturian king  Rusa is defeated by the Assyrian king Sargon the second who first attacked and destroyed Mettati, Urartu’s ally. Because of its wealth, abundance and prosperity Urartu had to pay a very heavy ransom. To the Assyrian king. Sargon imposed upon the Urarturians: One ton of gold, five tons of silver and thousands of objects, materials, tools, and instruments such as 393 silver cups or chalices, 25, 212  bronze shields, 305, 412 bronze swords, etc.). The year 707 B.C. marks the beginning of the multiple attacks of Cimmerians on Urartu. In 701 B.C., Assyria attacks Israel, ravages Jerusalem and captures almost  all the cities and ports of Phoenicia after fierce battles with the Phoenician and a long standing siege of the half-isle of Tyre, exactly as it happened with Alexander the Great of Macedonia who took him 9 months to seize the whole land and the small island of Tyre. In 689 B.C., The Assyrians destroy Babylon. Around 680 B.C., at Rusahinili, Uraturian king Rusa the second builds a new capital for his new kingdom. From 671 to 651 B.C., the Assyrian rule Egypt. In 612 B.C., Nineveh  in Assyria falls under the attacks of the armies of Medes and Babylonia. In 609 B.C., Babylonia and Medes joins forces and conquer Assyria. They defeat Ashur-Uballit the second, the last Assyrian king at Harran. In 590 B.C., the Uraturian capital Rusahinili is decimated and completed destroyed by  Medes. In 590 B.C., Urartu was sacked, burned and totally ruined. The Uraturian kingdom begins to fall and declines and never to rise again. In 585 B.C., Urartu is  totally annihilated by the Scythians.

Time Table of the Kings of Urartu

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