Assyria destroys the Kingdom of Israel

Name: Assyria destroys the Kingdom of Israel
Start: -0720
Location: Samaria

c. 720 BC · Samaria · Middle East · War

Samaria falls; its deportees become the 'ten lost tribes'

After a three-year siege the Assyrians took Samaria, capital of the Kingdom of Israel, around 722–720 BC. Sargon II claimed to have deported 27,290 people, resettled across Assyria and Media, giving rise to the legend of the ten lost tribes of Israel.

State: Neo-Assyrian Empire

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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)

Africa

c. 727 BC Kushite conquest of Egypt — 7 years earlier

Alive at the time

Piye (aged 50)