Second attack on Lydia The Cimmerians and Treres under Lygdamis and the Treran king Kōbos, and in alliance with the Lycians or Lycaonians, attacked Lydia for a second time in 644 BC: this time they defeated the Lydians and captured their capital city of Sardis except for its citadel, and Gyges was killed during this attack. The Neo-Assyrian sources blamed Gyges's death on his own , that is on his own independent actions, by claiming that the Cimmerians invaded Lydia and killed him as punishment for him providing Psamtik I with the troops he used to eliminate the other pro-Assyrian Egyptian kinglets and unify Egypt under his sole rule.
Second attack on Lydia The Cimmerians and Treres under Lygdamis and the Treran king Kōbos and in alliance with the Lycians or Lycaonians, attacked Lydia for a second time in 644 BC: this time they defeated the Lydians and captured their capital city of Sardis except for its citadel and Gyges was killed during this attack The Neo-Assyrian sources blamed Gyges's death on his own , that is on his own independent actions, by claiming that the Cimmerians invaded Lydia and killed him as punishment for him providing Psamtik I with the troops he used to eliminate the other pro-Assyrian Egyptian kinglets and unify Egypt under his sole rule.