The Hurrians (/ ˈhʊəriənz /; Hurrian: 𒄷𒌨𒊑, romanized: Ḫu-ur-ri; also called Hari, Khurrites, Hourri, Churri, Hurri) were a people who inhabited the Ancient Near East during the Bronze Age. They spoke the Hurrian language, and lived throughout northern Syria, upper Mesopotamia and southeastern Anatolia.

Feb 15, 2018 · The Hurrians (aka Hurri or Khurri) were a Bronze Age people who flourished across the Near East from the 4th millennium BCE to the 1st millennium BCE.

Dec 13, 2024 · The Hurrians were an influential Bronze Age people whose cultural, political, and religious dimensions once resonated across a wide geographical landscape.

Hurrian, one of a people important in the history and culture of the Middle East during the 2nd millennium bc. The earliest recorded presence of Hurrian personal and place names is in Mesopotamian records of the late 3rd millennium; these point to the area east of the Tigris River and the mountain region of Zagros as the Hurrian habitat.

Excavations at the 3rd millennium city of Urkesh in Syria are revealing new information about the mysterious people who lived there, known as the Hurrians. This view of the city's royal palace...

Apr 7, 2025 · History of Mesopotamia - Hurrian, Mitanni, Kingdoms: The weakening of the Semitic states in Mesopotamia after 1550 enabled the Hurrians to penetrate deeper into this region, where they founded numerous small states in the eastern parts of Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Syria.

Groups either designating themselves as Hurrians (cuneiform Hurri) or writing a language identified elsewhere with the Hurri, have been identified all over the ancient Near E, from ancient Nuzi, E of the Tigris River, to Hattusha, in central Asia Minor, to Pal. and even Lower (i.e., northern) Egypt.

The Hurrian religion was the polytheistic religion of the Hurrians, a Bronze Age people of the Near East who chiefly inhabited the north of the Fertile Crescent.

Cultures > Hurrians. Hurrians Background. The Hurrian civilization was a kingdom that developed in Mesopotamia and is unique in that they developed their own independent language. Origins. The Hurrians emerge on the scene during the middle of the Bronze Age.

Anatolian religion - Hittites, Hattians, Hurrians: An interval of only a few decades separates the end of the Assyrian colony period from the earliest records of the kingdom of Hatti, and for the next five centuries (c. 1700–1200 bc) the history of Asia Minor is well documented.