Fall of Ashdod - Capture of Ashdod

Capture of Ashdod

Despite the previous hostility between the two powers, it appears that the Assyrians and the Egyptians did not go to war. Indeed as late as 605 BC, the Egyptians were actively aiding the Assyrians in an attempt to help them survive. Moreover, the Ethiopian / Nubian rulers of Egypt were driven out by the native Coptic Egyptians sometime in c. 650; therefore the Assyrians and the native Egyptians made natural allies against Nubian domination. The capture of Ashdod may have been effectively reflect part of the transfer of power from the crumbling Assyrian Empire to the new Egyptian 26th Dynasty (Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt).