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The Hurrian culture was an Early Bronze Age (third and second millennium BC) culture in Syro-Mesopotamia; most of what we know from them is their language, and from excavations at Tell Mozan in Syria, now believed to be the Hurrian capital of Urkesh.
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Bronze Age Archaeology
The invention of metallurgy marks the onset of the Bronze Age in Europe, the Middle East and the Far East.
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Archaeological sites and studies of the ancient civilization of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers of the middle east.
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Tell Mozan is thought to be Urkesh, the ancient capital of the Hurrian society; an online article from Archaeology Odyssey .
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