Esarhaddon, also spelled Essarhaddon, Assarhaddon and Ashurhaddon was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 681 to 669 BC. The third king of the Sargonid dynasty, Esarhaddon is most famous for his conquest of Egypt in 671 BC, which made his empire the largest the world had ever seen, and for his reconstruction of Babylon, which had been destroyed by his father. c. 800 BC – October 19, 669 BC; died at about 132. Alive at the same time as Hesiod, Amos, Ashurbanipal, Archilochus of Paros, and Sennacherib. Wiki link