Esarhaddon

Esarhaddon, also spelled Essarhaddon, Assarhaddon and Ashurhaddon (, also , meaning "Ashur has given me a brother"; Biblical Hebrew: ʾĒsar-Ḥaddōn) was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 681 to 669 BC. The third king of the Sargonid dynasty, Esarhaddon is most famous for his conquest of Egypt in 671 BC, which made his empire the largest the world had ever seen, and for his reconstruction of Babylon, which had been destroyed by his father.

main figure in an ancient Aramaic story

thumb|300px|Reconstruction of the peribolos at Babylon, including the temple of Esagila, from The excavations at Babylon (1914)

stele in Germany

thumb|upright=1.3|Modern reconstruction of a mountain house at Nippur

ancient military conflict

673–663 BCE military campaign