question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Carchemish (/ˈkɑːrkəmɪʃ/ KAR-kəm-ish or /kɑːrˈkiːmɪʃ/ kar-KEE-mish), also spelled...
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The Battle of Carchemish was fought around 605 BC between the armies of Egypt allied with the remnants of the army of the former Assyrian Empire against...
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The Carchemish Phoenician inscription is a 5th-century BCE Phoenician inscription on glazed faience tile in Carchemish in the early 1950s during the excavations...
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1914, he worked as an archaeologist for the British Museum, chiefly at Carchemish in Ottoman Syria. After the outbreak of war in 1914, Lawrence joined the...
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Til Barsip (section Til Barsip and Carchemish)
Governorate, Syria by the Euphrates river about 20 kilometers south of ancient Carchemish. The site was inhabited as early as the Neolithic period with an important...
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Vassal state (section Carchemish)
this, the later kings of Carchemish acted as representatives for the Hittite Empire in Syria. In the 13th century, Carchemish was trading directly with...
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Land of Carchemish Project was a large archaeological research project at Durham University focusing on the archaeological site of Carchemish in northern...
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the Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire. At the Battle of Carchemish in 605 BC, Nebuchadnezzar inflicted a crushing defeat on an Egyptian army...
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failing to demonstrate his respects to Šuppiluliuma II. The vassal king of Carchemish, Talmi-Teššub, a member of the Hittite royal house, was apparently bound...
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identified as the site of Thapsacus. One possibility is a location close to Carchemish, which now lies in Turkey, on its border with Syria. Karkamış and Jarabulus...
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installation of the Hittite king's younger sons as local viceroys at Aleppo and Carchemish, and the rump of the Mittanian state itself became effectively a dependency...
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Solomon's Temple in 587 BCE. In the biblical account, after the Battle of Carchemish in 605 BCE, the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II besieged Jerusalem,...
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most notable Syro-Hittite kingdoms were those at Carchemish and Melid. With the ruling family in Carchemish believed to have been an cadet branch of the then...
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Kenites Kumidi Lakisha Megiddo Midian Phoenicia Qadesh Shechem Sidon Tyre Carchemish Hittite Empire Hurrians Urshu Nuhašše Mitanni Tell Hadidi Naziba Niya...
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Zhou Kuang Wang as king of the Zhou Dynasty in China. 605 BC—Battle of Carchemish: Crown Prince Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon defeats the army of Necho II...
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Piyassili (category Hittite viceroys of Carchemish)
Ekalte, Ahuna and Terqa) and Carchemish, formerly belonging to Hanigalbat. "And all of the cities of the land of Carchemish, Murmurik, Shipri, Mazuwati...
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captive. After the Babylonians defeated the Egyptians at the Battle of Carchemish in 605 BC, Nebuchadnezzar II besieged Jerusalem. Jehoiakim changed allegiances...
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documented in texts from Kanesh and Alalakh, though her main cult center was Carchemish. She was among the deities worshiped in northern Syria who were incorporated...
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Kenites Kumidi Lakisha Megiddo Midian Phoenicia Qadesh Shechem Sidon Tyre Carchemish Hittite Empire Hurrians Urshu Nuhašše Mitanni Tell Hadidi Naziba Niya...
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(Syria) and south central Asia Minor (modern Turkey), including Palistin, Carchemish and Sam'al. A Canaanite group known as the Phoenicians came to dominate...
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naming years. The Sicilian colony of Chersonesos is established (or 716 BC). Assyrian king Sargon conquers the Neo-Hittite stronghold of Carchemish. v t e...
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and its population is 9,379 (2022). It is next to the site of ancient Carchemish. It is a border checkpoint on the road to Jarabulus in Syria. What is...
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era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Battle of Carchemish: Crown Prince Nebuchadnezzar defeats the allied armies of Egypt and former...
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a city in northwestern Mesopotamia, likely located between Harran and Carchemish. It flourished in the middle and late Bronze Age before being destroyed...
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Kenites Kumidi Lakisha Megiddo Midian Phoenicia Qadesh Shechem Sidon Tyre Carchemish Hittite Empire Hurrians Urshu Nuhašše Mitanni Tell Hadidi Naziba Niya...
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the ditch, as in the outer defenses of other cities such as Qadesh and Carchemish. However, material evidence for such a wall is limited to postholes and...
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tribute. However, when the Egyptians were defeated by the Babylonians at Carchemish in 605 BCE, Jehoiakim changed allegiances to pay tribute to Nebuchadnezzar...
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Lydia. 717 BC — Assyrian king Sargon conquers the Neo-Hittite state of Carchemish. 717 BC — Sargon II founds a new capital for Assyria at Dur-Sharrukin...
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Kenites Kumidi Lakisha Megiddo Midian Phoenicia Qadesh Shechem Sidon Tyre Carchemish Hittite Empire Hurrians Urshu Nuhašše Mitanni Tell Hadidi Naziba Niya...
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way paid tribute to Ashurnasirpal to avoid being attacked, including Carchemish and Patina, as well as Phoenician cities such as Sidon, Byblos, Tyre and...
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