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General

Population: Perhaps 100 million*

• Deaths: Esarhaddon of Assyria (668 BC)

Africa

• Egypt: Assyrians under Asurbanipal marches to Nile Delta (668 BC)
  Psamtek rules Egypt in 26th Dynasty (663 BC)
  Assyrians sack Thebes (663 BC)

Middle East

• Assyria: Esarhaddon dies and son Ashurbanipal reigns to 627 BC (669 or 668 BC)
  Ashurbanipal builds library at nineveh (668 BC)
• Palestine: Last recorded date for the kingdom of Edom south of the Dead Sea (667 BC)
• Turkey: byzantium founded by Greeks (658 or 660 BC)