Battle of Carchemish

Battle of Carchemish
	Part of the Egyptian–Babylonian wars
	; The Battle of Carchemish, as depicted in Hutchinson's Story of the Nations (1900)
Date	c. 605 BC
Location	Carchemish
Result	Babylonian and Median victory; End of the Egyptian intervention in the Near East;
Belligerents
Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt; Remnants of the army of the former Neo-Assyrian Empire	Neo-Babylonian Empire; Median Empire; Scythian Kingdom (?)
Commanders and leaders
Necho II	Nebuchadnezzar II; Cyaxares(?)
Casualties and losses
Heavy	Minimal

The Battle of Carchemish was fought around 605 BC^[3]^[4]^[5] between the armies of Egypt allied with the remnants of the army of the former Assyrian Empire against the armies of Babylonia, allied with the Medes, and Scythians. This was while Nebuchadnezzar II was commander-in-chief and Nabopolassar was still king of Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar became king a few weeks after this battle.^[6]

^ Neciyev, Elnur. "The Cambridge History of Iran. Volume 2: The Median And Achaemenian Periods. edited by Ilya Gershevitch. Cambridge University Press, 1985. 929 pp": 124. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ Encyclopedia Iranica "After the fall of Ḥarran, the strategic center of Assyrian resistance was moved to Carchemish, a city on the Upper Euphrates, which at that time belonged to Egypt. Carchemish was captured by the Babylonians in 605 BCE. It is not clear whether the Medes also participated in this final defeat of the Assyrians"
^ Horn, Siegfried H (1967). "THE BABYLONIAN CHRONICLE AND THE ANCIENT CALENDAR OF THE KINGDOM OF JUDAH". Andrews University Seminary Studies (5/1967): 20. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
^ Wiseman, D. J. (1956). Chronicles of Chaldaean Kings (626-556 B.C.). British Museum: British Museum Publications, Ltd. p. 99.
^ British Museum. "Cuneiform tablet with part of the Babylonian Chronicle (605-594 BC)". britishmuseum.org. Archived from the original on 2014-10-30. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
^ Hill, Andrew; Walton, John (2009). A survey of the Old Testament (3rd ed.). Grand Rapids: Zondervan. p. 197. ISBN 9780310280958.

[1] Neciyev, Elnur. "The Cambridge History of Iran. Volume 2: The Median And Achaemenian Periods. edited by Ilya Gershevitch. Cambridge University Press, 1985. 929 pp": 124. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[2] Encyclopedia Iranica "After the fall of Ḥarran, the strategic center of Assyrian resistance was moved to Carchemish, a city on the Upper Euphrates, which at that time belonged to Egypt. Carchemish was captured by the Babylonians in 605 BCE. It is not clear whether the Medes also participated in this final defeat of the Assyrians"

[3] Horn, Siegfried H (1967). "THE BABYLONIAN CHRONICLE AND THE ANCIENT CALENDAR OF THE KINGDOM OF JUDAH". Andrews University Seminary Studies (5/1967): 20. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 4 August 2014.

[4] Wiseman, D. J. (1956). Chronicles of Chaldaean Kings (626-556 B.C.). British Museum: British Museum Publications, Ltd. p. 99.

[5] British Museum. "Cuneiform tablet with part of the Babylonian Chronicle (605-594 BC)". britishmuseum.org. Archived from the original on 2014-10-30. Retrieved 4 August 2014.

[6] Hill, Andrew; Walton, John (2009). A survey of the Old Testament (3rd ed.). Grand Rapids: Zondervan. p. 197. ISBN 9780310280958.

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