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Revision as of 19:16, 24 July 2003 by 130.39.222.169 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The Mitanni appear to have been a people of Indic origin who ruled a vast kingdom in West Asia in the second millenniium BC. They seem to have venerated Vedic Deities and their nobility used Indo-Aryan names, and worshipped Indo-Aryan Gods.
Tadukhipa, the second queen of the Egyptial Pharaoh Akhenaten was a Mitanni princess, the daughter of the King Tushratta (Tushyaratha or Dasharatha).
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- The History of the Ancient Near East
http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Hurrian_Kingdom_of_Mitanni.html