It was a fratricidal episode, as the leader of the resistance was his own brother, Shamash-shum-ukin. Both were heirs of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria and son of the famous Sennacherib. Upon Sennacherib ...
At the end of the 8th century BC the Assyrian King Sennacherib chose Nineveh as ... Sennacherib's successor Esarhaddon died in 669 BC while on an expedition to crush rebellion in Egypt.