So beginning around 911 BCE, the Neo-Assyrian Empire grew from its hometowns of Ashur and Nineveh to include the whole of Mesopotamia, the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, and even, by 680 BCE, Egypt.是以,從公元前 911 年左右開始,新亞述帝國從其家鄉亞述和尼尼微擴張,涵蓋了整個美索不達米亞、地中海東岸,甚至在公元前 680 年擴展到埃及。