The Persian Wars
King Shilkhak-Inshushinak invaded Assyria as far as Ashur and besieged Babylon, establishing a brief Elamite empire which applied the proto-Elamite script in its inscriptions. Even so, just before the twelfth century was more than, Babylon’s Nebuchadrezzar I defeated the Elamites and took Marduk’s statue back. Assyrian military...
