AMMAN The recorded history of Arabs began in the 9th century BC with the first attestation of the Old Arabic language. The period of the Neo-Assyrian Empire was very turbulent in the region and Tiglath-Pileser III’s (ruled between 745 BC and 727 BC) launched a campaign against Philistia in 734 BC. Tiglath-Pileser III finished a period of political and military stagnation of