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Carchemish

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: T. Sinclair, P.-L. Gatier
Contributors: M. Ballance, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Warner, R. Talbert, Rune Rattenborg
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Last modified Jun 01, 2023 06:31 PM History
An ancient city that was part of the Mitanni, Hittite, and Neo-Assyrian Empires (Kargamiš in Hittite; commonly Carchemish). The site was occupied as early as the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods; evidence for Early Bronze Age cist tombs begins ca. 2400 BC. It was a key commercial center during the time of Ebla and Mari. The Mitanni controlled the site from the sixteenth to the fourteenth centuries and was conquered by Šuppiluliuma ca. 1350 B.C. A famous battle, attested in the Bible, was fought at the site in 605 BC between the Babylonian army under Nebuchadnezzar II and that of the Egyptian Pharaoh Necho II.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/658465

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settlement, archaeological site

Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 67 G3 Europos

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Jerablous/Cerablus (Carchemish) SYR/TKY


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T. Sinclair, P.-L. Gatier, M. Ballance, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Warner, R. Talbert, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Carchemish: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/658465> [accessed: 28 March 2024]

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