Abd-milkot beheaded.
Phœnician and Cypriote kings make submission to Assyria.
671 Baal I of Tyre revolts unsuccessfully against Esarhaddon. In submission he sends his own son Yahi-melek to the Assyrian court.
668 Asshurbanapal succeeds Esarhaddon on the Assyrian throne. With the help of Tyre he compels Yakinlu, king of Aradus, to submit. Subsequently Yakinlu is deposed and his son Azebaal given the throne. After this time the Phœnicians begin to throw off the Assyrian yoke, an achievement made easy by Asshurbanapal’s struggle with Shamash-shum-ukin in Babylonia. The recovery of independence is a peaceable one.
636 Is the last date we possess of an Assyrian governor in Phœnicia.
625 The Scythian tribes invade Phœnicia from the northeast.
610 Africa circumnavigated for Neku II by Phœnician seamen.
608 Battle of Megiddo, and submission of Syria to Neku II. Phœnicia once more under Egyptian dominion.
605 Battle of Carchemish. Defeat of Neku by Nebuchadrezzar. Phœnicia comes under the rule of Babylonia. Phœnicia now remains docile to Nebuchadrezzar until stirred up by Uah-ab-Ra, Pharaoh of Egypt, who enters into an alliance against Babylonia with Tyre and Sidon, after proceeding against them by land and sea.