Mesopotamian Mystery: Who Were The Hurrians?


	Mesopotamian Mystery: Who Were The Hurrians?

invictus

6-12-2008 9:23 PM

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archaeology, mesopotamia, hurrians, syria, akkad, sumer, bronze age

invictus says:

Abstract from a very interesting article that appears on Archaeology magazine's latest (July/August) issue.

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But Piotr Michaelowski, an Assyriologist at the University of Michigan, notes that Hurrian, like Sumerian, is a language unrelated to Semitic or Indo-European tongues that dominated the region during and after the third millennium B.C. 
Perhaps, he suggests, the Hurrians were earlier inhabitants of the region, who, like the Sumerians, had to make room for the Semitic-speaking people who created the world's first empire based at Akkad in central Mesopotamia around 2350 B.C.
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