But more importantly, when your whole worldview is based on the idea that the apocalypse will come if you ever lose a battle, and then you lose one battle, the whole worldview just blows up. That eventually happened, and in 612 BCE, the city of Nineveh was finally conquered and the Neo-Assyrian Empire had come to its end. But the idea of empire was just getting started. Next week, we'll talk about mummies. Oh, I have to talk about other things too? Crap, I only want to talk about mummies. Anyway, we'll be talking about... Sudan.