Kassites

Iraq under the Kassites
about c. 13th century BC

The Kassites, a people that are recorded as originating in Central Asia, making the city of Babylon c. 1595 B.C.E. The Kassites got Babylon for near 3 centuries, restoring  temples at Ur, Uruk, and Isin, as well as at DurKurigalzu, contemporary Agar Quf in Iraq. By the 13th century B.C.E., the Kassite Empire treated most of Mesopotamia, but it was invade by the Elamites c. 1159 B.C.E. Different Kassite rulers had relations with Egypt, and some are mentioned in the Amarna agreement. Burna-Buriash II (1359-1333 B.C.E.), Kurigalzu I (c. 1390 B.C.E.), and Kurigalzu II (1332-1308 B.C.E.) are among those kings.


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