Kalhu or, Biblical, Kalah (Hebrew כלח): capital of ancient Assyria, modern Nimrud.History
The ziggurat of Nimrud
This city, called Kalhu by the Assyrians…
Kaneš or Neša: central town in the Middle Bronze trade network of Anatolia, with several palaces and an Assyrian trading post (modern Kültepe, twenty kilometers northeast of modern Kayseri).Early History
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Kara Tepe: ancient Buddhist monastery near modern Termez (southern Uzbekistan).Early Bactria
Bactrian imitation of an Athenian drachm
Since the early Achaemenid age, Bactria…
Kassites (Akkadian Kaššu): tribal federation living in the Zagros mountains, in modern Luristan. In the seventeenth century BCE, they threatened Babylonia, which they captured in the fifteenth century. More than a millennium later, they are mentioned - now called Cossaeans…