id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1079 Tantamani - Wikipedia .html text/html 2424 502 77 653 BC) was a pharaoh of Ancient Egypt and the Kingdom of Kush located in Northern Sudan and a member of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt. Ashurbanipal's account of his Second Sampaign in Egypt against Tantamani ("Urdamanee"/ "Ruddamon"), in the Rassam cylinder Tantamani had already left the city for Kipkipi, a location that remains uncertain but might be Kom Ombo, some 200 km (120 mi) south of Thebes.[6] The city of Thebes was conquered, "smashed (as if by) a floodstorm" and heavily plundered in the Sack of Thebes.[6] The event is not mentioned in Egyptian sources but is known from the Assyrian annals,[7] which report that the inhabitants were deported. The Assyrian reconquest effectively ended Nubian control over Egypt although Tantamani's authority was still recognised in Upper Egypt until his 8th Year in 656 BCE when Psamtik I's navy peacefully took control of Thebes and effectively unified all of Egypt. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1079.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1079.txt