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Multi-periodSite Name: Carchemish, Syrian Alternative Name: Karkemish, EuropusCountry: Syria
NOTE: This site is 14.652 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Aleppo Nearest Village: Carablus
Latitude: 36.825447N Longitude: 38.018112E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Carchemish is a mound of ruins on the West bank of the Euphrates, at the Syrian Turkish border. Access to the site is restricted as a Turkish military base was been built on the Carchemish acropolis. Part of the site also lies on Syrian territory. The site has been occupied since the Neolithic period and commanded the strategic ford across the Euphrates and the timber trade. The city is mentioned in tablets found in the Ebla archives of the 3rd millennium BCE and the Mari and Alalakh archives of about 1800 BCE. Pharaoh Thutmose I of the 18th Dynasty erected a stele near Carchemish to celebrate his conquest of territory beyond the Euphrates. Under Pharaoh Akhenaten, in the 14th century BCE, Carchemish was captured by the Hittites. When the Hittite empire fell to the Sea Peoples, Carchemish continued to be an important trade center and the capital of a Neo-Hittite kingdom during the Iron Age. In the 9th century BCE, the city was a vassal state of the Assyrians. Around 605 BC the Babylonians conquered the city and thereby expelled the Egyptians. Carchemish was mentioned sevral times in the Bible and in Egyptian and Assyrian texts. The location was first re-identified in 1876 by George Smith. The site was first excavated by members of the British Museum, in the early 20th century by among them the legendary Lawrence of Arabia. These expeditions recovered remains from the Assyrian and Neo-Hittite periods, suc as town walls, temples, palaces, and numerous basalt statues and reliefs. many of these are in the Ankara Museum.
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