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Archaeology Odyssey 4:3, May/June 2001

When a Mittani Princess Joined Pharaoh’s Harem

Politics as usual in the mid-second millennium B.C.E.

By Gernot Wilhelm

Around 1354 B.C.E. a caravan of hundreds of donkeys laden with valuable treasures departed from Washukkani, the capital of the Mittani kingdom in present-day northern Syria. Protected by a formidable military corps of chariots and infantry, the caravan headed through Syria and Palestine to the Egyptian capital of Thebes—a 1,400-mile journey that would take about four months.

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