Babylon conquers Nineveh (Assyrian Empire)

612 BC (About 2600 years ago): The Assyrian Empire's capital city - Nineveh - is attacked by a coalition of Babylonians, Scythians, Medes and others. As explained by the prophet Nahum in the Bible, Nineveh was to be destroyed because of the Assyrian Empire's treatment of the Israelites and other people.