{"id":97154,"date":"2026-08-08T16:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T21:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=97154"},"modified":"2026-08-08T16:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T21:52:17","slug":"found-a-legendary-city-that-history-forgot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/found-a-legendary-city-that-history-forgot\/","title":{"rendered":"Found: A Legendary City that History Forgot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\tfrom\u00a0U.S. News and World Report<\/em>, December 4, 1995, p. 10
\nvia\u00a0Sentry Magazine<\/em>, Vol. 22 No. 1, March 1996\n

They lived, legend said, more than 4,000 years ago, mining ore and worshiping a god that lived in their fabled capital, Urkesh. Modern history remembered their contemporaries-the Sumerians and the Semites-but it all but forgot the Hurrians and their rich city. In fact, many historians doubted that the Hurrians or Urkesh ever existed because only scant evidence had been found: a mention in the Old Testament, scattered references in ancient literature, and two unearthed bronze lions with the inscription Urkesh.<\/p>\n

Last week, those doubts faded. After eight years of excavation, a team of archaeologists headed by UCLA’s Giorgio Buccellati reported locating Urkesh beneath the modern town of Tell Mozan in northeastern Syria. The diggers found clay pottery, metal tools, detailed drawings and seal imprints from the ancient civilization. Among the most striking: the signature seals of Urkesh’s king and queen. The discovery, Buccellati says, will help give Urkesh and the overlooked Hurrians their proper place in history. “The footnote will become a chapter.”<\/p>\n

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Note:<\/h2>\n

Scholars link the Hebrew word for Horite (Hori<\/em>) to the Hurrians (Hurri<\/em>) due to the similarity of the words. The Horites are mentioned in connection with Mount Seir and the Edomites (Genesis 14:6; 36:20-30; Deuteronomy 2:12, 22).<\/p>\n

by Jeffrey W. Hamilton<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from\u00a0U.S. News and World Report, December 4, 1995, p. 10 via\u00a0Sentry Magazine, Vol. 22 No. 1, March 1996 They lived, legend said, more than 4,000 years ago, mining ore and worshiping a god that lived in their fabled capital, Urkesh. Modern history remembered their contemporaries-the Sumerians and the Semites-but it all but forgot the Hurrians…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[201],"tags":[725,1928],"class_list":["post-97154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-archaeology","tag-hurrians"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4259,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/flaws-in-the-iraq-interesting-e-mail\/","url_meta":{"origin":97154,"position":0},"title":"Flaws in the “Iraq – Interesting” E-Mail","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 5, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"by Nathan Barton Once again, an e-mail \"chain letter\" is being circulated which is a hoax filled with misleading information that should not be spread by anyone. 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