Its capture by Sargon destroyed a rival of Assyrian trade, and opened the road to the Mediterranean to the armies of Assyria.
The decay of the Hittite and Mitannian power meant the revival of the older Aramaean population of the country.

The foreigner was expelled or absorbed; Syria and Mesopotamia became more and more Semitic.

Aramaean kingdoms arose on all sides, and a feeling of common kinship and interests arose among them at the same time.

To the north of the Gulf of Antioch, in the very heart of the Hittite territory, German excavators have lately found the earliest known monuments of Aramaean art.

The art, as is natural, is based on that of their Hittite predecessors; even the inscriptions in the alphabet of Phoenicia are cut in relief like the older hieroglyphs of the Hittites.