The Assyrian state was finally defeated in 612 BC by a coalition of Medes (
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Sargon, king of Akkad
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painted tombs of the Valley of the Kings.
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last great pharaoh, Rameses III
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Damascus and Israel,
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Ten Lost Tribes of Israel
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Nineveh the Middle East’s first organized library,
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Tyre, Sidon and Berot
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Phoenician dyes and – most notably – its famous purple textiles became much sought after (purple fabrics were increasingly associated with superior social status). Indeed the name Phoenicia is derived from the Greek word for ‘purple’.