But after the successful revolt of the Babylonians against Tiglath-Ninip the Assyrian power decayed.

More than a century later Assur-ris-isi entered again on a career of conquest and reduced the Kurds to obedience.
His son, Tiglath-pileser I., was one of the great conquerors of history.
He carried his arms far and wide.

Kurdistan and Armenia, Mesopotamia and Comagene, were all alike overrun by his armies in campaign after campaign.

The Hittites paid tribute, as also did Phoenicia, where he sailed on the Mediterranean in a ship of Arvad and killed a dolphin in its waters.

The Pharaoh of Egypt, alarmed at the approach of so formidable an invader, sent him presents, which included a crocodile and a hippopotamus, and on the eastern bank of the Euphrates, near Carchemish and Pethor, he hunted wild elephants, as Thothmes III.