Mitanni

In fact, the title God's Wife of Amun was applied to the sisters of kings, whom they had begun to take as their wives, or to their mothers.

Around 1500 BCE, Amos's son, Amenhotep, which means Amun is satisfied, extended the southern border even farther into the territory of the Kingdom of Kush, which had attacked southern Egypt in the past, and he may have had some encounters with Mitanni in Syria.

Amenhotep was followed in 1493 by one of his generals, who took the name Thutmose I.

The Kushites immediately rebelled, and in response Thutmose invaded, killed the king, and made Kush a permanent part of his empire.

This, together with a number of other battles Thutmose fought in this region, was the beginning of a continuous Egyptian presence in Canaan that lasted at least through the end of the 13th century BCE, and whose influence is reflected in the Canaanite art, architecture, and documents of that period.

It also calls into question the Bible's claim that around this time, hundreds of thousands of Israelites escaped from Egypt, where they were slaves, to Canaan, where they were free of Egyptian domination.

After subduing the Mediterranean coast, Thutmose continued north to the Mitanni Empire, but was not able to defeat it.

Egypt's relations with Mitanni then improved during the reigns of his successors in the first half of the 14th century.

In the ninth year of his reign, Pharaoh Amenhotep II declared, he wrote down on the Amarna tablets that a basically worldwide peace had been reached between him and all the other great kings in the Near East.

The peace was between the Hittites, the Babylonians, and a people called the Mitanni.

And Pharaoh Amenhotep wrote that each king tried to outdo his counterpart with gifts of every foreign land.

Now this is fascinating because it's probably the first recorded large-scale treaty between kingdoms or states.

It's like the first United Nations.

It's pretty cool.

The king of the Mitanni, Tushrata, he wrote in a letter after his daughter married the Egyptian pharaoh that, quote, "...we between us are one, the Hurrian land and the land of Egypt.

I am the king of Egypt, and my brother is the king of the Hurrian land." Question when we're talking about the late Bronze Age collapse is what happened? We've talked a little bit about, you know, the nuts and bolts, per se, of what happened.

We have an enormous number of kings, remarkably, that we have the names of.

We know that those kings ruled, but perhaps as vassals of other states, probably at some point as vassals of Mitanni, probably also vassals of Babylon at some point.

But the kingdom of Hana continued all the way up into the Middle Assyrian period, which is a long time.

Gosh.

And is this the biggest kingdom to date in Syria? It

is, yes.

It's the first really great kingdom, Mitanni.

Mitanni.

Everything was already there for them and they had a means of transport and these were dropped by drones.

So that is a similar innovation in warfare as the chariot was between... for the Romans, but also for the Mitanni in India and people being buried with them.

And so you see how important the wheel is in the spread of Indo-European languages.

So when I am trying to establish in your mind how important this sound meaning bundle of turning and write is, I'm not picking this out by accident.

In the quiet hours of night, the pharaoh stood upon the terrace, gazing northward.

Beyond the darkness lay the lands of his rivals, the Hittites, the Mitanni, the restless princes of Syria.

He thought of Seti's lessons, of the balance between patience and strength, yet within him burned a fire that would not be contained.

He could feel destiny pressing upon him, urging him toward the next great test.

The remaining twelve are good." "How do you mean, good? Why is one of these things valuable and another so much punk? They all look alike to me." And then the expert talked to Mr.

Peters for nearly two hours about the New Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom, Osiris, Ammon, Mut, Babastis, Dynasties, Cheops, the Hyksos Kings, Cylinders, Beezles, Amenophis III, Queen Tiya, the Princess Gilakippa of Mitanni, the Lake of Zeruki, Necralis, and the Book of the Dead.

He did it with a relish.

He liked to do it.

Mr. Peters, in his character of showman, threw himself into his work with even more than his customary energy.

His flow of speech never faltered.

He spoke of the New Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom, Osiris and Ammon, waxed eloquent concerning Mutt, Babastus, Cheops, the Hyksos kings, cylinders, bezels, and Amenophis III, and became at times almost lyrical when touching on Queen Tiya, the Princess Gilakipa of Mitanni, the Lake of Saruki, Necratus, and the Book of the Dead.

Time slid by.

Hither, pilgrims, merchants, soldiers, and all the wandering denizens of the world were accustomed to direct their steps, and the habit once established was perpetuated for centuries.

On the left bank of the river, and almost opposite Carchemish, lay the region of Mitanni.

Footnote.

Mitanni is mentioned on several Egyptian monuments, but its importance was not recognized until after the discovery of the Tell el-Amarna tablets and of its situation.

The fact that a letter from the prince of Mitanni is stated in a hieratic docket to have come from Nahraim has been used as a proof that the countries were identical.

I have shown that the docket proves only that Mitanni formed a part of Nahraim.

It extended over the province of Edessa and Harran, stretching out towards the sources of the Tigris.

Niebuhr places it on the southern slope of the Mosios in Magdonia.

The presence of the Hurrians in Amalek's lineage, for instance, raises important questions about cultural exchanges in the ancient Near East.

The Hurrians, known for their expertise in metallurgy, horsemanship, and military organization, left a significant legacy in various ancient empires such as the Mitanni and even the Hittites.

Could it be that Amalek, whether a historical figure or mythic symbol, inherited more than just blood? Might he have also absorbed the art of war and the spirit of conquest from these ancestral peoples? Among the many layers of Amalek's story, there is a detail that often goes unnoticed, a subtle but revealing element that may shed new light on his identity and origin.

It lies in the figure of his mother, Timna, and the possible influence she had in choosing her son's name.

In the quiet hours of night, the Pharaoh stood upon the terrace, gazing northward.

Beyond the darkness lay the lands of his rivals, the Hittites, the Mitanni, the restless princes of Syria.

He thought of Seti’s lessons, of the balance between patience and strength.

Yet within him burned a fire that would not be contained.