Some of the earliest Egyptian records of …
Years: 1353BCE - 1342BCE
Some of the earliest Egyptian records of Damascus are from the Amarna letters of around 1350 BCE, when Damascus (called Dimasqu) is ruled by king Biryawaza, who was ordered by his Egyptian overlords to take armed action against the sons of Labaya (EA 250), a Habiru, possibly Canaanite, warlord.
The name Biryawaza is Indo-European in origin.
Biryawaza may have been of an Indo-European maryannu caste similar to that which rules Mitanni and the Hittite kingdom.
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People
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- Canaanite culture, ancient
- Hapiru, or Habiru
- Aramaeans
- Egypt (Ancient), New Kingdom of
- Mitanni (Hanigalbat), Kingdom of
- Hittites (Hittite Empire), (New) Kingdom of the
