🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Carchemish (Karkemish)
Bronze–Iron Age · Hittite viceroy, Neo-Hittite Suhi dynasty, Assyrian
Straddling Euphrates ford metropolis: Hittite viceroy-capital with King’s Gate hieroglyphs and 605 BCE battlefield.
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🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Bronze–Iron Age · Hittite viceroy, Neo-Hittite Suhi dynasty, Assyrian
Straddling Euphrates ford metropolis: Hittite viceroy-capital with King’s Gate hieroglyphs and 605 BCE battlefield.
🇹🇷 Turkey/Syria · Ancient city
Late Bronze to Neo-Assyrian (c. 1800 BCE – 605 BCE) · Hittite / Mitanni / Neo-Hittite–Aramaean / Assyrian / Babylonian
Euphrates ford harbour capital – quay orthostats 40 m and harbour gate by Euphrates narrows.