A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Tell Mozan is the site of the ancient city of Urkesh, mentioned in both historical records and myths. It’s located in the foothills of the Taurus Mountains in Al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria.
Tupkish, the king of Urkesh. Credits: G. Buccellati, November 2002
It was founded during the fourth millennium BC possibly by the Hurrians on a site which appears to have been inhabited previously for a few centuries.
The beginnings of Urkesh are as yet unknown, but it is known they date back to at least the early part of the fourth millennium BC and occupied the area – of both the plains and mountainous hinterland in what is today portions of Syria, Iraq, and Turkey.
The discovery of Urkesh has pushed back the earliest evidence for the Hurrians into ¨the third millennium., the civilization – in many ways alternative to that of the Sumerians, the Akkadians, and the Amorites.
However, it’s also unknown civilization with language, which is unique and totally unrelated to any other known ancient or living language and the Hurrian texts from Urkesh are only the earliest ones.
It was the main center of the Hurrians, who celebrated it in their countless myths as the home of the father of the gods, Kumarbi – the foremost son of Anu (the sky), identified by the Hurrians with Sumerian Enlil.
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