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 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
Commanders and leaders
Necho II	Nebuchadnezzar II
Casualties and losses
Heavy	Minimal

The Battle of Carchemish was a battle fought around 605 BCE between the armies of Egypt, allied with the remnants of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, against the armies of Babylonia.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] The forces would clash at Carchemish, an important military crossing and trade city on the banks of the Euphrates River in modern-day Syria.^[5] Nebuchadnezzar II was given command of this Babylonian force while Nabopolassar, his father and the king of Babylonia, was still in Babylon.^[6] Necho II, the king of Egypt, led the Egyptian and Assyrian forces in the battle. The battle would end in a major defeat for the Egyptian and Assyrian forces. The defeat ended Egyptian influence in the Levant and led to Babylon expanding its domain to the borders of Egypt.

^ 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.
^ Theodor Seidl, "Carchemish in Near Eastern Historiography and the Old Testament." OTE 22 (2009): 648.
^ Theodor Seidl, "Carchemish in Near Eastern Historiography and the Old Testament." OTE 22 (2009): 646.
^ Hill, Andrew; Walton, John (2009). A survey of the Old Testament (3rd ed.). Grand Rapids: Zondervan. p. 197. ISBN 9780310280958.

[1] 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.

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

[3] 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.

[4] Theodor Seidl, "Carchemish in Near Eastern Historiography and the Old Testament." OTE 22 (2009): 648.

[5] Theodor Seidl, "Carchemish in Near Eastern Historiography and the Old Testament." OTE 22 (2009): 646.

[:0-6] Hill, Andrew; Walton, John (2009). A survey of the Old Testament (3rd ed.). Grand Rapids: Zondervan. p. 197. ISBN 9780310280958.

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Battle of Carchemish

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