Karkamış Ancient City
Hittite Empire BC. The most powerful of the Late Hittite Kingdoms, which was established in the 300 years following its collapse towards the beginning of the 12th century, is the Kingdom of Carchemish. Carchemish came under the influence of the Hittites, who captured Aleppo and most of Syria in the second half of the 17th century BC. Hittite Empire BC. After its fall around 1195, Carchemish became one of the most powerful independent kingdoms in the region. B.C. Assyrian II in 717. The city was destroyed by Sargon. After the settlement continued in the city during the Hellenistic and Roman periods, it quickly lost its importance and was abandoned.
As a result of the excavations, many new Luwian hieroglyphic inscriptions, clay tablets, graceful walking lion, winged bull and winged goat-bull reliefs of the 1st millennium BC; mosaic floors were unearthed. Reliefs, mostly from the Late Hittite period, depict the Goddess Kubaba and the procession with soldiers, priests, people carrying various animals, princes armed with long and straight swords, chariots, mixed creatures and guardian animals. Her name is. It sheds light on the lifestyle, dress and culture of the early 1st millennium BC. Most of the Carchemish reliefs are exhibited in Ankara Anatolian Civilizations Museum and Gaziantep Archeology Museum.
