Fording the Khabur River in Al-Hasakeh
Since the 1930s, numerous archaeological excavations and
surveys have been carried out in the Khabur Valley, indicating that the region has been occupied since the
Lower Palaeolithic period.
[3] Important sites that have been excavated include
Tell Halaf,
Tell Brak,
Tell Leilan,
Tell Mashnaqa,
Tell Mozan and
Tell Barri. The region has given its name to a distinctive painted ware found in
northern Mesopotamia and Syria in the early 2nd millennium BCE, called
Khabur ware. The region of the Khabur River is also associated with the rise of the Kingdom of the
Mitanni that flourished c.1500-1300 BC.
The Khabur River is mentioned in
1 Chronicles 5:26 in the Hebrew Bible: "
Tiglath-Pileser
... took the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half tribe of Manasseh
into exile. He took them to Halah, Habor (Khabur), Hara and the River
Gozan, where they are to this day". (NIV) The identification of the
Khabur with the Habor is not contested.
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