This is from Egypt in Ancient Times by Donald Redford of the Univ. of Toronto. ------------------------------------------- Yamkhad-Aleppo, a powerful Amori kingdom was deferred to by both Mari and Hammurabi of Babylon. A fleet of five hundred vessels plied the Euphrates and policed Mesopatamia, tapping commerce from Cyprus to Iran. This rich kingdom may have excited the cupidity of Turkey/Antalya's Hatti-Kadesh. King Hattusali was the first to invade Aleppo, and his successor Mursilli of Khate destroyed it forever. By 1500 B.C. he had annihilated Babylon and the Khana state. A second ethnic group looming large on the horizon was the Harrian. An Indo-Aryan element out of Iran, they introduced Dagan to the Semitic pantheon. The migration provided the Mesopatamia to Punjab stretch with a dominant aristocracy: the phenomenon is remembered in the Puranas, "Prasatas had one hundred sons, all kings." Aryan names are replete with infixes of the principal Vedic gods Mithra, Varuna and Indra. Aryan customs like cremation and horse drawn chariots would prevail. Frederick - my stylus goes to your query. I have nicked a billowing windmill's wing in a private communication : one does not lance a campaneiro.
