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Submitted by AlexHunger on Saturday, 02 July 2022  Page Views: 7479

Multi-periodSite Name: Carchemish Alternative Name: Karkamış, Europus
Country: Turkey Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Karkamış
Latitude: 36.829059N  Longitude: 38.015816E
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4Short walk on a footpath
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Carchemish
Carchemish submitted by AlexHunger : Orthostat with mythical figures from Carchemish, a neo-Hittite city on the Euphrates at the Turkish/Syrian border. (Vote or comment on this photo)
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 centre 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 BCE the Babylonians conquered the city and thereby expelled the Egyptians. Carchemish was mentioned several 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, such as town walls, temples, palaces, and numerous basalt statues and reliefs, many of these are in the Ankara Museum. The site is exactly on the Turkish Syrian border and may not be accessible.

Note: Historical artefacts discovered during excavations by Turkish and Italian teams in the ancient city of Karkamış (Carchemish) in southern Gaziantep province have offered new insights into the region’s history and Assyrian-Hittite interactions, details in the comments on our page
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Carchemish
Carchemish submitted by durhamnature : A pair of Hittite bulls at Carchemish, from "Syria" via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

Carchemish, Syrian
Carchemish, Syrian submitted by durhamnature : Old drawing, from "History of Art..." via archive.org Site in Syria (Vote or comment on this photo)

Carchemish
Carchemish submitted by AlexHunger : Orthostat dating to between 760 and 740 BCE from Carchemish, a neo-Hittite city on the Euphrates at the Turkish/Syrian border. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Carchemish
Carchemish submitted by AlexHunger : Column base from Carchemish, a neo-Hittite city on the Euphrates at the Turkish/Syrian border. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Carchemish, Syrian
Carchemish, Syrian submitted by durhamnature : Old plan drawing, from "History of Art in Sardinia...." via archive.org

Carchemish, Syrian
Carchemish, Syrian submitted by durhamnature

Carchemish, Syrian
Carchemish, Syrian submitted by durhamnature : Old drawing, from "History of Art in Sardinia...." via archive.org

Carchemish, Syrian
Carchemish, Syrian submitted by durhamnature : Old plan drawing of the site, from "History of Egypt..." via archive.org Site in Syria

Carchemish
Carchemish submitted by durhamnature : A carving from Carchemish, from "History of Art in Sardinia..." via archive.org Site in Turkey

Carchemish
Carchemish submitted by AlexHunger : Orthostat of the Goddess Kubaba (Kybele) from Carchemish, a neo-Hittite city on the Euphrates at the Turkish/Syrian border.

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"House of the Seal" brings a different perspective to the Hittite-Assyrian relations by davidmorgan on Thursday, 12 May 2022
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Historical artifacts discovered during excavations by Turkish and Italian teams in the ancient city of Karkamış (Carchemish) in southern Gaziantep province have offered new insights into the region’s history and Assyrian-Hittite interactions.

Carchemish, a strategically important place due to being on the Syrian trade routes, was a valuable kingdom for the Hittites, Mitanni, and Hurrians. The Kingdom of Carchemish, which was joined to the Hittite lands by Suppiluliuma I, has always been a vassal of the Hittite kingdom.

Karkamis was the most important administrative center in the region of the Hittite Empire, which ruled over Anatolia and Mesopotamia for centuries.

Source: Arkeonews.
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Archaeologists Find Ancient Wonders Near ISIS Stronghold by davidmorgan on Sunday, 30 November 2014
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Archaeologists in Turkey have unveiled their latest discoveries, found amid the ruins of an ancient city that is within sight of an Islamic State stronghold in neighboring Syria.

"Basically we work 20 meters away from the Islamic State-controlled areas," the University of Bologna's Nicolo Marchetti told The Associated Press at the site, near Gaziantep. "Still, we have had no problem at all. ... We work in a military area. It is very well protected."

More than 500 Turkish soldiers, backed up by tanks and artillery, guard the site along the Euphrates River. The place was known as Karkemish in ancient times, and served as a strategic city for the Mitanni, Hittite and Assyrian empires, going back 5,000 years.

Today, Karkemish is once again a strategic outpost: The black banner of the Islamic State flies above the Syrian city of Jarablous, just across the border. The Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, has taken control of wide swaths of Syria and Iraq and instituted a reign of terror — forcing tens of thousands of refugees to flee into Turkey.

The area around Karkemish has been a magnet for archaeologists as well as armies. Ancient mosaics continue to be unearthed at a nearby dig in Zeugma, and some of those mosaics are preserved in a museum in Gaziantep.

A century ago, T.E. Lawrence — better known as Lawrence of Arabia — participated in a previous round of British excavations at Karkemish. Archaeological work was suspended when World War I broke out, and the Turkish military allowed outside researchers to return to the dig only in 2011.

On Saturday, Marchetti and other members of an international archaeological team showed off newly excavated artifacts.

Among the highlights were walls that bear millennia-old hieroglyphs; sculptures from the palace of Katuwa, a Hittite king who ruled the area around 900 B.C.; and a mosaic floor in the palace of Sargon II, an Assyrian king who reigned around 700 B.C.

Marchetti said the plan is to open Karkemish to tourists next spring. A 13-foot-high (4-meter-high) concrete barrier will be erected at the site.

"This will be a total protection for the tourists," he told AP.

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/archaeologists-find-ancient-wonders-near-isis-stronghold-n249341

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