Karkamış: IG PC21 - a podcast by James E Aarons DVM

The city Karkamış, located on the most strategic site of the Euphrates River separates the mighty Mitanni Kingdom of King Tushratta with the growing military menace of the Hittite armies of King Šuppiluliuma advancing south from modern Turkey. When Karkamış fell to the Hittites King Tushrata lost a major east to west thoroughfare that connected the ancient Middle East, the cradle of civilization to the Egyptian empire of the Nile,. The learned scribe Girgous understood th¥e importance of befirending the future Hittite rulers a, aquiescing to a long and the copper rich mines of alashaya, modern day Cyprus

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