Who destroyed Urartu?
Tiglath-pileser’s son, King Sargon II of Assyria (721–705), completed the elimination of Urartu as a rival for hegemony in the Middle East. Urartu’s hopes of help from the northern Syrian principalities were dashed by their swift subjection, ending with the incorporation of Carchemish into the Assyrian empire in 717. What happened to Urartu? Decline and…