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| 710 BC |
| | The first known lock and key is fitted in the new palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad, in Assyria | |
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| c. 700 BC |
| | Sennacherib moves the Assyrian capital to a new site at Nineveh | |
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| 663 BC |
| | The Egyptian city of Memphis falls to an Assyrian army, soon to be followed by Thebes | |
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| c. 650 BC |
| | Ashurbanipal commissions a great library of cuneiform clay tablets at Nineveh | |
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| c. 645 BC |
| | Ashurbanipal commissions a magnificent relief of a lion hunt for his new palace at Nineveh | |
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| 612 BC |
| | The Medes and the Babylonians destroy Nineveh and bring to an end the power of Assyria | |
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| 1845 |
| | British archaeologist Henry Layard, in his first month of digging in Iraq, discovers the Assyrian city of Nimrud | |
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| 1853 |
| | Hormuzd Rassam discovers the magnficent lion-hunt reliefs in the palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh | |
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