bearing Amorite names such as Yakbim, and were likely part of the later Hyksos. The term Amurru in Akkadian and Sumerian texts refers to the Amorites, their...

Amorite is an extinct early Semitic language, formerly spoken during the Bronze Age by the Amorite tribes prominent in ancient Near Eastern history. It...

Battle between the Israelites and the Amorites, Joshua's Battle Against the Amorites or Joshua's Victory over the Amorites is a c. 1625 oil-on-canvas painting...

like the Amorites, some even consider Abraham to be among the Amorites that migrated to the Levant. Like Abraham and his descendants, the Amorites followed...

(170 mi) wall dubbed "Repeller of the Amorites", extending in between the Tigris and Euphrates, to hold them off. The Amorites are depicted in contemporary records...

Philistines. The sons of Canaan are given as Sidon, Heth, then the Jebusites, Amorites, Girgasites, Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, Arvadites, Zemarites, and the Hamathites...

the Amorite inhabited Levant, and eventually southern Mesopotamia fell to the Amorites. During the first centuries of what is called the "Amorite period"...

a language isolate) before the introduction of Elamite cuneiform. The Amorites were a nomadic Semitic people who occupied the country west of the Euphrates...

found as far north as Diyarbekir, where he claims the title "King of the Amorites". Vast numbers of contract tablets, dated to the reigns of Hammurabi and...

died. The Amorites were considered a backward people by Mesopotamian standards; Ibbi-Sin's 17th year was officially named "Year the Amorites, the powerful...