Ancient Babylonia Glossary - Carchemish
Ancient city, Turkey, on the Euphrates River, at the Syrian border, c.35 mi
(56 km) SE of Gaziantep. It was an important Neo-Hittite city and was prosperous
in the 9th cent. B.C. before it was destroyed by the Assyrians. Even then it
continued as an important trade center. There, in 605 B.C., Nebuchadnezzar
defeated Necho (2 Chron. 35.20; Jer. 46.2; Isa. 10.9). Among the excavated remains
are sculptured neo-Hittite reliefs with hieroglyphic Hittite inscriptions.
Ancient Babylonia
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