Mycenaeans had assumed control of such places…

Assyria allies for a brief time with a diminished Mitanni from 1325 to liberate the Mitanni subkingdom of Hangibat from Hittite control.

Hittite emperor Suppiluliama has reconquered much of central Anatolia, dominated Syria, and vanquished the Mitanni state by the time of the death around 1323.

Suppiliuliama’s son, succeeding him as Mursili II, must almost immediately deal with unrest from vassals in the east, north, and west.

Horemheb, Tutankhamen’s general, repels Hittite incursions on the Egyptian empire in northern Syria.

Tutankhamen, apparently once an active leader of his troops but weakened by a virulent strain of malaria and degenerative bone disease, dies at the age of nineteen or so of infection resulting from a leg fracture.

He is succeeded by his vizier Ay, who marries Tutankhamen's widow and appropriates the king's tomb for himself.

The young king is buried, with linen gloves and numerous pieces of fine gold jewelry embedded with precious stones, at Thebes in the Valley of the Kings; a curse reading "Death comes on swift wings to he who opens this tomb," is inscribed on the tomb’s doorway.

His rich tomb furnishings include a gold sarcophagus with a (now-famous) gold and lapis lazuli funerary mask.

Among the burial items are an iron dagger with a golden hilt.

Also entombed with Tutankhamen is an example of the earliest known military game, alquerque, a two-player game played on a board marked with five diagonal lines.

Each player has twelve pieces and can move them onto vacant intersections or capture an enemy piece by jumping over it to an unoccupied point.

Two relief sets of battle-themed carvings from Tutankhamen's mortuary temple survive, one depicting a Nubian campaign and one larger group that shows the king in a chariot leading the Egyptian forces against a Syrian-style citadel.

Other blocks in the second series depict Tutankhamen receiving prisoners, booty, and the severed hands of the enemy dead, strung on spears: a detail unique in Egyptian art, which, at this time, stresses truthfulness in representation.

Therefore, Tutankhamen’s presence in these scenes indicates the likelihood that he actually participated in these campaigns.

Ay dies in 1323 or 1320; Horemheb succeeds him as pharaoh.

Tushratta had been assassinated by a group led by one of his sons after a third devastating Hittite raid led to the fall of Carchemish, according to a treaty later made between Suppiluliuma and Tushratta's brother Shattiwaza.

A time of civil war had followed, which comes to an end when Suppiluliuma places his son-in-law Shattiwaza on the Mitannian throne.

Horemheb, upon his accession to the throne in about 1320 BCE, had initiated a comprehensive series of internal reforms meant to curb the gross abuses of power and privileges that had begun under Akhenaten's reign, due to the overcentralization of state power and privileges in the hands of a few officials.

He "appointed judges and regional tribunes…reintroduced local religious authorities" and divided legal power "between Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt" between "the Viziers of Thebes and Memphis respectively.”

These deeds are recorded in a stela which the king had erected at the foot of his Tenth Pylon at Karnak.

Sometimes called The Great Edict of Horemheb, it is a copy of the actual text of the king's decree to reestablish order to the Two Lands and curb abuses of state authority.

The stela's creation and prominent location emphasizes the great importance which Horemheb placed upon domestic reform.

Horemheb also reformed the Army and reorganized the Deir el-Medinah workforce in his Seventh Year while Horemheb's official, Maya, renewed the tomb of Thutmose IV, which had been disturbed by tomb robbers in his Eighth Year.

Cecrops II, a legendary King of Athens, dies after a reign of forty years and is succeeded by his son Pandion II.

Pandion II was later driven into exile from Athens by the sons of Cecrops II's brother (or possibly nephew) Metion, so that Metion could take power.

Pandion II fled to Megara, where he married the King's daughter and eventually inherited the throne.

After his death, Pandion II's sons return to Athens and drive out the sons of Metion.

The so-called Elamite Middle Period, an era of increasing power and prosperity which begins around 1300, sees a surge of spectacular architecture and sculpture at such Elamite centers as Dur-Untash.

The Hittite empire, at its peak during the reign of Mursili II, stretches from Arzawa in the west to Mitanni in the east, many of the Kaskian territories to the north including Hayasa-Azzi in the far northeast, and on south into Canaan approximately as far as the southern border of Lebanon, incorporating all of these territories within its domain.

By the time of his death, followed by the succession of Muwattali in 1295, the Hittite Empire, now firmly established, is effectively governed through a widespread system of treaty relationships with allies and vassal states.

A rock-fill dam, used to irrigate fields near the present city of Homs, is constructed on the Orontes River in Syria about 1300.

Egypt's power and confidence has once again been restored under Horemheb after the chaos of the Amarna period.

Horemheb is a prolific builder: in his lifetime, he builds numerous temples and buildings throughout Egypt.

He constructs the Second, Ninth and Tenth Pylons of the Great Hypostyle Hall in the Temple at Karnak, using recycled talatat blocks from Akhenaten's own monuments as building material for the first two Pylons.