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| | Alalakh Information |
 | | Related Topics: Turkey, Hatay, Antioch, Today Antakya, Bronze Age, 4th millennium BCE, Fertile Crescent, Mukish, Yamhad, Aleppo, 18th century BC, 16th century BC, Mitanni, 15th century BC, 14th century BC, Hittite Empire, Dark Ages, Archaeologist, Leonard Woolley, 1935, 1939, 1946, 1949, University of Chicago, 2000, Ugarit, British Museum, Akkadian, Hattusas, |
 | | The city was founded during the Bronze Age in the 4th millennium BCE, as one of the first great cities of the Fertile Crescent. |
 | | The inscribed statue of Idrimi, a king of Alalakh after ca 1500s BCE1500 BCE, has given a unique autobiography of Idrimi's youth, his rise to power, and his military and other successes (now in the British Museum). |
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