c. 647 BC — The wall panel Assurbanipal and his Queen in the garden, from the palace at Nineveh (modern Kuyunjik, Iraq) is completed. It is now in The British Museum, London.[1]
645 BC — In the Chinese book of the Spring and Autumn Annals, it was recorded that on December 24 of this year there were five meteors seen in the sky over what is now northern Shanqiu County, Henan Province. It was the first Chinese recording of meteors.
^the wall panel Assurbanipal and his Queen in the garden, now in the British Museum
^Potts, D. T. (1999) "The Archaeology of Elam: Formation and Transformation of an Ancient Iranian State" (Cambridge World Archaeology)
^Spalinger, Anthony J. (1978). "The Date of the Death of Gyges and Its Historical Implications". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 98 (4): 400–409. doi:10.2307/599752. Retrieved 25 October 2021.