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13. The Assyrians - Empire of Iron

Fall of Civilizations Podcast

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The Assyrian Dream

New king of independent babylon had big plans for the ancient city he ruled. Nabo palaso refers to himself in his inscriptions using the phrase mar la mamana, or the son of a nobody. The medean and babylonian forces pushed north up the river euphrates but they found that even a wounded lion can still bite. It wasn't until the year six, 12 b c, two years after the invasion had begun, that the medean army reached the walls of ass ra's greatest city - nineveh.

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