# 647 BC

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The year **647 BC** was a year of the [pre-Julian Roman calendar](/source/Roman_calendar). In the [Roman Empire](/source/Roman_Empire), it was known as **year 107 *[Ab urbe condita](/source/Ab_urbe_condita)***. The denomination 647 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [Anno Domini](/source/Anno_Domini) [calendar era](/source/Calendar_era) became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

## Events

### Middle East

- [Elam](/source/Elam) refuses to extradite an [Aramaean](/source/Arameans) prince, giving the king [Ashurbanipal](/source/Ashurbanipal) of [Assyria](/source/Assyria) an excuse to invade the country.[citation needed] He sacks the city of [Susa](/source/Susa).[1]
- Ashurbanipal and his Queen in the Garden, from the palace at [Nineveh](/source/Nineveh) (modern [Kuyunjik](/source/Kuyunjik), Iraq), is made. It is now at the [British Museum](/source/British_Museum), [London](/source/London).[2][3]

## References

1. [*Elam and Persia*](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Elam_and_Persia/9JUFEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=susa&pg=PA357&printsec=frontcover). Penn State University Press. 23 June 2011. p. 357. ISBN 9781575066127.

1. Harry Francis Mallgrave (29 September 2011). [*Building Paradise Episodes in Paradisiacal Thinking*](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Building_Paradise/sFw7EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Ashurbanipal+and+his+Queen+in+the+Garden+647&pg=PT40&printsec=frontcover). Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781000449242.

1. ["Paradise on earth: the gardens of Ashurbanipal"](https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/paradise-earth-gardens-ashurbanipal). *British Museum*. 4 October 2018.

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