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    Abdi-Ashirta was a powerful king of Amurru, a region covering much of modern-day Syria, in the 14th century BC. Through his military campaigns, he managed to capture several cities that had been under Egyptian control and made Amurru into a powerful kingdom. However, his conquests provoked the Pharaoh Amenhotep to send troops to Syria to capture Abdi-Ashirta, who died in the city of Shumur before the Egyptian army arrived.

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    Abdi-Ashirta was a powerful king of Amurru, a region covering much of modern-day Syria, in the 14th century BC. Through his military campaigns, he managed to capture several cities that had been under Egyptian control and made Amurru into a powerful kingdom. However, his conquests provoked the Pharaoh Amenhotep to send troops to Syria to capture Abdi-Ashirta, who died in the city of Shumur before the Egyptian army arrived.

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    Written by: Amar Tufo,

    (BA) archaeologist,
    6. September 2020

    Who was Abdi-Ashirta?

    In this short article, check out brief biography of Abdi-Ashirta, king of ancient

    Syrian land of Amurru (1400 BC), the most wanted man on Ancient Near East

    at the time.

    Abdi-Ashirta was a king of land of Amurru in 14-th century BC. Back then,

    land of Amurru covers most of modern day Syria. Most what we know of Abdi-

    Ashirta comes from El-Amarna letters written by pharaoh Amenhotep III and

    Amenhotep IV. The letters tells us that Abdi-Ashirta was a great and powerful

    ruler who manage to make land of Amurru into powerful kingdom trough his

    military campaign against the city of pharaoh.

    In just two years, Abdi-Ashirta manage to capture several cities under Egyptian

    control such as Batruna, Shigata, Arwad, Shumur, Ulasa, Bitarha, Tyra, Sydon,

    and others, eventually provoking the pharaoh Amenhotep to send his troops into
    Syria on the call of Rib-Hadad, king of Gubla, on the Lebanon, to capture and

    stop Abdi-Ashirta. King probably dies several days in Shumur before arrival of

    pharaoh army, which allows his son Aziru to take the throne of Amurru as a

    next king.

    [+] Reference

    [1] The story of Metusalem

    https://www.compellingtruth.org/Methuselah-in-the-Bible.html

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