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Sennacherib's successor Esarhaddon went further, launching a full scale invasion of Egypt in 674 BC, defeating Taharqa and quickly conquering the land.
* 690 BC: Taharqa, a king of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty, ascends the throne of Egypt ( approximate date )
* 674 BC: Esarhaddon puts down a revolt in Ashkelon supported by Taharqa, king of Egypt.
* 664 BC: Taharqa appoints his nephew Tantamani as his successor of Upper Egypt.
* 663 BC — Death of Taharqa, king of Egypt
* 664 BC: Taharqa appoints his nephew Tantamani as his successor of Upper Egypt.
* 663 BC: Death of Taharqa, king of Egypt
* 674 BC — Esarhaddon puts down a revolt in Ashkelon supported by Taharqa, king of Egypt.
* 690 BCTaharqa, a king of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty, ascends the throne of Egypt ( approximate date )
* c. 690 BC-664 BC — Sphinx of Taharqa, from Temple T, Kawa, Nubia, is made.
The events in the Biblical account are believed to have taken place in 701 BC, whereas Taharqa came to the throne some ten years later.
Taharqa died in the city of Thebes in 664 BC and was succeeded by his appointed successor Tantamani, a son of Shabaka.
In 671 BC Esarhaddon went to war against Pharaoh Taharqa of Egypt.
After the death of Taharqa in 664 BC his nephew and successor Tantamani invaded Upper Egypt and made Thebes his capital.
Tantamani died in 653 BC and was succeeded by Atlanersa, a son of Taharqa.
The Nubian army travelled along with Taharqa presumably to fight the Assyrians at the Battle of Eltekh in 701 BC.
In 690 BC, Shebitku died and was succeeded by Taharqa, his younger brother.
A new Kushite King Tantamani ( 664 – 653 BC ) killed him the same year that Taharqa died, in 664 BC when Tantamani invaded Lower Egypt.
However, his arguments are not currently accepted by most Egyptian scholars such as Dan ' el Kahn or Kenneth Kitchen who still believe that the Year 8 Athens stela of king Shepsesre Tefnakht likely belongs to Tefnakht I rather than a hypothethical Tefnakht II who would then have assumed power in 685 BC at Sais — early during the reign of Taharqa, one of the most powerful Nubian rulers of Egypt.

Taharqa and ),
This stela records that an Apis bull who was born and installed ( 4th month of Peret, day 9 ) in Year 26 of Taharqa died in Year 20 of Psammetichus I ( 4th month of Shomu, day 20 ), having lived 21 years.
Taharqa was described by the Ancient Greek historian Strabo as having " Advanced as far as Europe ", and ( citing Megasthenes ), even as far as the Pillars of Hercules in Spain.
File: Amun in Barkal. jpg | Taharqa before the god Amun in Gebel Barkal ( Sudan ), in temple B300

Taharqa and last
In 2003 Archaeologist Charles Bonnet heading a team of Swiss archaeologists excavating near Kerma discovered a cache of monumental black granite statues of the Pharaohs of the Nubian dynasty including Taharqa and Tanoutamon, the last two pharaohs of the ' Nubian ' Dynasty, whose statues are described as " masterpieces that rank among the greatest in art history.

Taharqa and Kushite
Under Taharqa, the city formed the frontier base of the resistance, which soon crumbled as the Kushite king was driven back into Nubia.
At Hezakiah's request, Taharqa and the Egyptian / Kushite army managed to stall the Assyrian advance on Jerusalem.
When King Assurbanipal succeeded Esarhaddon, the Kushite king Taharqa convinced some rulers of Lower Egypt to break with Assyrians.
Moreover, it is improbable that Taharqa, perhaps one of the most powerful Kushite kings of the Nubian 25th dynasty for the first 18 years of his reign, would have tolerated the existence of a rival line of native Egyptian kings at Sais during the first half of his reign when he exercised full control over Memphis and the Delta region.

Taharqa and pharaoh
Taharqa was a pharaoh of the Ancient Egyptian 25th dynasty and king of the Kingdom of Kush, which was located in Northern Sudan.
The two snakes in the crown of pharaoh Taharqa describes that he was the king of both the lands, Egypt and Nubia.
Sphinx of the Nubian pharaoh Taharqa.
The oldest and largest pyramid at Nuri is that of the Napatan king and Twenty-fifth Dynasty pharaoh Taharqa.
* Taharqa, Nubian pharaoh of the twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt

Taharqa and was
However, Taharqa was able to return some years later and wrest back control of a part of Egypt as far as Thebes from the Egyptian vassal princes of Assyria.
Taharqa was the son of Piye, the Nubian king of Napata who had first conquered Egypt.
Taharqa was also the cousin and successor of Shebitku.
When Taharqa was about 20 years old, he participated in a historic battle with the Assyrian emperor Sennacherib at Eltekeh.
According to Francis Llewellyn Griffith, an attractive hypothesis is to identify the Pharaoh as Taharqa before his succession, and Sethos as his Memphitic priestly title, " supposing that he was then governor of Lower Egypt and high-priest of Ptah, and that in his office of governor he prepared to move on the defensive against a threatened attack by Sennacherib.
While Taharqa was still in the neighbourhood of Pelusium, some unexpected disaster may have befallen the Assyrian host on the borders of Palestine and arrested their march on Egypt.
Taharqa was buried at Nuri-North Sudan.
He was succeeded first by his brother, Shabaka, and then by his two sons Shebitku and Taharqa.
Taharqa reunited the " Two lands " of Northern and Southern Egypt and created an empire that was as large as it had been since the New Kingdom.
Abar was the mother of his successor Taharqa.
However, this same scene of the Libyan attack was used two hundred years later in the mortuary temple of Pepi II and in a Kawa temple of Taharqa.
Psamtik I was probably a descendant of Bakenrenef, and following the Assyrians ' invasions during the reigns of Taharqa and Tantamani, he was recognized as sole king over all of Egypt.
Shabaka is thought to be the son of King Kashta and Pebatjma, although a text from the time of Taharqa could be interpreted to mean that Shabaka was a brother of Taharqa and hence a son of Piye.
Shabaka's Queen Consort was Qalhata, according to Assyrian records, a sister of Taharqa.
He was the son of King Shabaka and the nephew of his predecessor Taharqa.

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