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[[File:Ashurbanipal's Second Campaign in Egypt (Rassam cylinder).jpg|thumb|Ashurbanipal's Second Campaign in Egypt, in the [[Rassam cylinder]]]]
[[File:Egypt - Capture of Memphis by the Assyrians.png|thumb|Capture of Memphis by the Assyrians.]]
{{blockquote|This city, the whole of it, I conquered it with the help of Ashur and Ishtar. Silver, gold, precious stones, all the wealth of the palace, rich cloth, precious linen, great horses, supervising men and women, two obelisks of splendid electrum, weighing 2,500 talents, the doors of temples I tore from their bases and carried them off to Assyria. With this weighty booty I left Thebes. Against Egypt and Kush I have lifted my spear and shown my power. With full hands I have returned to Nineveh, in good health.|[[Rassam cylinder]] of Ashurbanipal<ref>Ashurbanipal (auto) biography cylinder, c. 668 BCE; in James B. Pritchard, ed., ''Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament with Supplement'' (Princeton UP, 1950/1969/2014), 294-95. {{ISBN|9781400882762}}. Translated earlier in John Pentland Mahaffy et al., eds., ''A History of Egypt, vol. 3'' (London: Scribner, 1905), 307. Google Books partial-view: [http://books.google.com/books?id=04VUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA307 p.307]; and E. A. Wallis Budge, ''A History of Ethiopia: Volume I, Nubia and Abyssinia'' (London: Taylor & Francis, 1928/2014), 38. {{ISBN|9781317649151}}</ref>}}
The sack of Thebes was a momentous event that reverberated throughout the Ancient Near East. It is mentioned in the [[Book of Nahum]] chapter 3:8-10:
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